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Definition: liberals

Part of Speech Definition
Noun Plural 1. Plural inflection of the noun liberal.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adverb Base
(liberally)		 1. Freely in a nonliteral manner; "he embellished his stories liberally".[Wordnet].
2. In a generous manner; "he gave liberally to several charities".[Wordnet].
3. In a liberal manner.[Websters].
4. In a tolerant, broad, generous, spacious or catholic manner.[Eve - graph theoretic]
5. In a wide or elaborate manner.[Eve - graph theoretic]
6. In a big, tremendous, voluminous, massive or vast manner.[Eve - graph theoretic]
7. In a great, colossal or genial manner.[Eve - graph theoretic]
8. In a huge, gigantic, outsize or oversize manner.[Eve - graph theoretic]
9. In an unselfish, rife or bounteous manner.[Eve - graph theoretic]
10. Adverbial inflection of the adjective liberal.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Noun Base
(liberal)		 1. A person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties.[Wordnet].
2. A person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets.[Wordnet].
3. One who favors greater freedom in political or religious matters; an opponent of the established systems; a reformer; in English politics, a member of the Liberal party, so called. Cf. Whig.[Websters].

Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008.

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Date "Liberals" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1800. (references)

Common Expressions: liberals

Expressions Definition
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (French: Alliance des Démocrates et des Libéraux pour l'Europe) is a Group in the European Parliament. It is composed of members from the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party, European Democratic Party and assorted independents. Both European political parties continue to exist. (references)
Circle of Reformist Liberals The Circle of Reformist Liberals (French: Cercle des Libéraux Réformateurs) is a political party in Gabon. (references)
Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats The Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats is a regional organization of liberal and democratic political parties in Asia. (references)
Federation of Italian Liberals The Federation of Italian Liberals (Federazione dei Liberali Italia) is a liberal party in Italy. (references)
Flemish Liberals and Democrats The Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten or VLD (Flemish Liberals and Democrats) is a Flemish liberal party, created in 1992 from the former PVV and a few other politicians from other parties. (references)
Liberals (Finland) Liberals (Liberaalit) is a free market liberal party in Finland. Founded in 1965 as a reunification of the Finnish People's Party (Suomen Kansanpuolue) and Free-minded League (Vapaamielisten Liitto). Originally named Liberal People's Party (Liberaalinen Kansanpuolue), it restyled its name as Liberals (Liberaalit) in the party congress on February 26 - February 27 2000. The change of name was registered by the Register of Associations on March 14 2001. (references)
Liberals for Åland The Liberals for Åland (Swedish: Liberalerna på Åland) is a liberal party of the Åland Islands. The party is an observer at Liberal International. At the last elections, the party won 24.1 % of popular votes and 7 out of 30 seats. (references)
Liberals for forests Liberals for forests (l4f) is an Australian pro-forest party. It is not connected to either the Liberal Party or the Australian Greens, and does not preference either highly. (references)
Liberals of Serbia The Liberals of Serbia (Либерали Србије, Liberali Srbije) is a liberal party in Serbia. (references)
Social Liberals (Austria) Die Sozialliberalen (German: The Social Liberals) is a minor liberal political party in Austria, that never won a seat in a federal election. (references)
The Liberals (Greece) The Liberals (Greek: Οι Φιλελεύθεροι Oi Fileleytheroi ) is a liberal party in Greece founded by Stefanos Manos in April of 1999. The party was suspended in October of 2001 mainly because of economic problems. Stefanos Manos was elected in Greek legislative election in 2004 in PASOK's ticket after accepting a invitation by George Papandreou, president of PASOK. (references)
Union of Liberals and Leftists Left political party in Iceland, founded by Hannibal Valdimarsson and his supporters in 1969. Joined Ólafur Jóhannesson's first government in 1971-1974. Was against American base in Iceland. (references)
Young Liberals The Young Liberal Movement, or the Young Liberals, is the youth-division of the Liberal Party of Australia, and membership is open to those between 16 and 30 years of age. Young Liberals have full party-membership, and have the choice of which part they join. They are active in Liberal Party campaigning during all state and federal elections. (references)
Young Liberals (Germany) Junge Liberalen (Young Liberals), generally called JuLis, a political youth organization in Germany. It is the youth wing of Freie Demokratische Partei (Free Democratic Party). JuLis was founded in 1980, and was recognized as the official FDP youth wing in 1983. (references)
Young Liberals of Canada The Young Liberals of Canada is the national youth wing of the Liberal Party of Canada. The organization binds together provincial and territorial Liberal Youth organizations. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Topics by Level of Interest: liberals

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe 66     Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe 66
Flemish Liberals and Democrats 32     Black Rednecks and White Liberals 5
Young Liberals 30     Circle of Reformist Liberals 5
Liberals of Serbia 21     Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats 14
League of Free Liberals 21     Federation of Italian Liberals 7
Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats 14     Flemish Liberals and Democrats 32
Young Liberals (Australia) 13     Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed 10
Western Australian Young Liberals 10     Independent Liberals (Israel) 6
The Social Liberals (Austria) 10     Laurier Liberals 4
Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed 10     League of Free Liberals 21
National Alliance of Liberals 10     Liberals (Finland) 6
Young Liberals of Norway 9     Liberals for Åland 5
Liberals for Forests 9     Liberals for Forests 9
Young Liberals (Germany) 8     Liberals for Life 4
Young Liberals (Switzerland) 7     Liberals of Serbia 21
Federation of Italian Liberals 7     National Alliance of Liberals 10
Young Liberals of Canada 6     Ontario Young Liberals 4
Independent Liberals (Israel) 6     Party of New Liberals 4
Liberals (Finland) 6     Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America 2
The Liberals (Greece) 5     The Liberals (Greece) 5
Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild 5     The Sgarbi Liberals – The Libertarians 4
Black Rednecks and White Liberals 5     The Social Liberals (Austria) 10
Circle of Reformist Liberals 5     Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild 5
Liberals for Åland 5     Union of Liberals and Leftists 2
Party of New Liberals 4     Western Australian Young Liberals 10
Ontario Young Liberals 4     Young Liberals 30
Laurier Liberals 4     Young Liberals (Australia) 13
Liberals for Life 4     Young Liberals (Germany) 8
The Sgarbi Liberals – The Libertarians 4     Young Liberals (Switzerland) 7
Union of Liberals and Leftists 2     Young Liberals of Canada 6
Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America 2     Young Liberals of Norway 9

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

Synonyms: liberals
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

 handsomes, kinds, republicans, socialists, Tories, broads, givings, liberalism, catholics, nobles, permissives, progressives, wides, adults, bads, crowings, elders, grownups, informals, lefts, lights, prominents, slacks, wantons.
Consider also: franks, flushes, fulls, latitudinarians, greats, neoliberals, reformists, understandings, classicals, fars, heavies, whigs, independents, milds, prodigals, publics, riches, spares.

Verb

 frees, lavishes, opens, looses.
Consider also: clears.

Other

 plenties, liberalness, overliberal.

Expression

 Whigs staff.
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Computed Synonyms: liberals

 Rank

 Intensity 

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 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   79.1193   Liberals     lavishes     profuses, riches, handsomes, flushes, hearties   
 2   67.1091   Liberals     handsomes     lovelies, fines, fairs, pretties, goods   
 3   48.1094   Liberals     wides     greats, roomies, grands, highs, looses   
 4   48.1093   Liberals     riches     wealthies, fats, fulls, opulence, affluence   
 5   41.1094   Liberals     greats     grands, highs, heavies, strongs, hefties   
 6   33.0798   Liberals     liberal     generous, bounteous, bountiful, ample, lavish   
 7   28.1092   Liberals     outsizes     greats, wides, handsomes, rounds, heavies   
 8   28.1092   Liberals     rounds     cycles, circulars, ways, fulls, runs   
 9   27.1094   Liberals     rives     rends, commons, rips, rifts, tears   
 10   27.1092   Liberals     flushes     polishes, fires, heats, blazes, flares   
 11   26.1094   Liberals     generous     liberal, bounteous, bountiful, ample, abundant   
 12   24.2093   Liberals     fulls     completes, repletes, thicks, fats, entires   
 13   24.1093   Liberals     nobles     grands, lofties, greats, highs, majestics   
 14   24.0091   Liberals     freehanded     generous, liberal, bounteous, bountiful, open handed   
 15   21.3093   Liberals     prodigals     spendthrifts, profligates, wastrels, riches, wasters   
--------------------     527 synonyms ranked from 16 to 542 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Synonyms via Expressions: liberals

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 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.0089   Liberals     pulse width     pulse duration, span, width   
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Expressions: liberals

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Expression

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.8498   left liberals     left-liberals         
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Synonyms within Context: liberals

Context Synonyms within Context

Party

Liberals, Confederates, Conservatives, Democrats, Federalists, Federals, Freemason, KKK, Knight Templar, Kuklux, Kuklux Klan, Luddites, Republicans, Socialists, Tories, Whigs.

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Antonyms: liberals
Position Antonyms (sorted by strength)

Noun

 conservatives, totalitarians.
Consider also: reactionaries.
Source: Eve, based on meta analysis. Top

Translations: liberals

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Al Arabiya فَيَّاض (effluent, outflowing, abundant, ample, ampler), مُتَصَدِّق (charitable, freehanded, generous, gracious, kind), مُحْسِن (beneficent, charitable, freehanded, generous, gracious), مِضْياف (freehanded, generous, gracious, kind, Kinder), فَيَّاح (ample, ampler, amplest, bounteous, bountiful), نَجْب (bounteous, bountiful, generous, gracious, kind), واسِعُ أُفُقِ التَّفْكِير (liberal, Liberals), كَرِيم (benign, decent, generous, gracious, kind), بَذْل (bounteous, bounties, bountiful, bounty, effort), زاخِر (generous, bountiful, freehanded, kind, Kinder). Additional references: Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
Al Fus-Ha فَيَّاض (effluent, outflowing, abundant, ample, ampler), مُتَصَدِّق (charitable, freehanded, generous, gracious, kind), مُحْسِن (beneficent, charitable, freehanded, generous, gracious), مِضْياف (freehanded, generous, gracious, kind, Kinder), فَيَّاح (ample, ampler, amplest, bounteous, bountiful), نَجْب (bounteous, bountiful, generous, gracious, kind), واسِعُ أُفُقِ التَّفْكِير (liberal, Liberals), كَرِيم (benign, decent, generous, gracious, kind), بَذْل (bounteous, bounties, bountiful, bounty, effort), زاخِر (generous, bountiful, freehanded, kind, Kinder). Additional references: Al Fus-Ha, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
Arabic فَيَّاض (effluent, outflowing, abundant, ample, ampler), مُتَصَدِّق (charitable, freehanded, generous, gracious, kind), مُحْسِن (beneficent, charitable, freehanded, generous, gracious), مِضْياف (freehanded, generous, gracious, kind, Kinder), فَيَّاح (ample, ampler, amplest, bounteous, bountiful), نَجْب (bounteous, bountiful, generous, gracious, kind), واسِعُ أُفُقِ التَّفْكِير (liberal, Liberals), كَرِيم (benign, decent, generous, gracious, kind), بَذْل (bounteous, bounties, bountiful, bounty, effort), زاخِر (generous, bountiful, freehanded, kind, Kinder). Additional references: Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified 自由主义 (liberalism, laissez faire, latitudinarianism, liberal, liberalness). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
Corse Liberale (generous, liberal, ample, bounteous, charitable), Largu (width, broad, generous, wide, ample). Additional references: Corse, France, Italy, Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsi Liberale (generous, liberal, ample, bounteous, charitable), Largu (width, broad, generous, wide, ample). Additional references: Corsi, France, Italy, Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsican Liberale (generous, liberal, ample, bounteous, charitable), Largu (width, broad, generous, wide, ample). Additional references: Corsican, France, Italy, Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
Corso Liberale (generous, liberal, ample, bounteous, charitable), Largu (width, broad, generous, wide, ample). Additional references: Corso, France, Italy, Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsu Liberale (generous, liberal, ample, bounteous, charitable), Largu (width, broad, generous, wide, ample). Additional references: Corsu, France, Italy, Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch Liberale (liberal, liberally, Liberals). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
Finnish Liberaalit (Liberals). Additional references: Finnish, Finland, Russia (Europe), Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
Français libéral (liberal, bounteous, generous, liberally, bountiful). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
French libéral (liberal, bounteous, generous, liberally, bountiful). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
German Liberale (liberal, liberally, Liberals). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
High Arabic فَيَّاض (effluent, outflowing, abundant, ample, ampler), مُتَصَدِّق (charitable, freehanded, generous, gracious, kind), مُحْسِن (beneficent, charitable, freehanded, generous, gracious), مِضْياف (freehanded, generous, gracious, kind, Kinder), فَيَّاح (ample, ampler, amplest, bounteous, bountiful), نَجْب (bounteous, bountiful, generous, gracious, kind), واسِعُ أُفُقِ التَّفْكِير (liberal, Liberals), كَرِيم (benign, decent, generous, gracious, kind), بَذْل (bounteous, bounties, bountiful, bounty, effort), زاخِر (generous, bountiful, freehanded, kind, Kinder). Additional references: High Arabic, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
High German Liberale (liberal, liberally, Liberals). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch Liberale (liberal, liberally, Liberals). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
Italian liberali (liberal, Liberals). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese 自由主義者 (liberal, liberalist, latitudinarian, liberals, latitudinarians), 左の自由主義者 (left liberals, left-liberals). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomea Liberaalit (Liberals). Additional references: Suomea, Finland, Russia (Europe), Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
Suomi Liberaalit (Liberals). Additional references: Suomi, Finland, Russia (Europe), Liberals. (volunteer & more translations)
Source: Eve, based on a combination of meta analysis and graph theory (for near and back translations). Top

Constructed Language Translations: liberals

Language Translations for “Liberals” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Pig Latin Iberalslay (Liberals). Additional references: Pig Latin, Liberals. (volunteer)
Terran B Liberale (Liberals). Additional references: Terran B, Liberals. (volunteer)
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Ancestral and Extinct Language Translations: liberals

Language Period Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Gaulish 400 - 500 Riu-manos (liberal person, liberalist, Liberals), Riu-manios (liberal person, liberalist, Liberals). Additional references: Gaulish, Liberals. (volunteer)
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Adjacent words:

Liberalists     Liberalizingly     Liberati
Liberality     Liberally     Liberating
Liberalium     Liberal-minded     Liberatingly
Liberalization     Liberalness     Liberation
Liberalize     Liberal-Progressive     Liberation Theology
Liberalized     Liberals     Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam
Liberalizedly     Liberate     Liberationist
Liberalizer     Liberated     Liberations
Liberalizers     Liberatedly     Liberato
Liberalizes     Liberately     Liberator
Liberalizing     Liberates     Liberatore


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