Synonyms of liberation

liberation

noun

ˌli-bə-ˈrā-shən 

as in emancipation

the act of setting free from slavery

the liberation of the slaves was one of the key results of the Civil War

Synonyms & Similar Words

• emancipation
• freeing
• freedom
• manumission
• salvation
• enfranchisement
• redemption
• deliverance
• independence
• liberty
• autonomy
• sovereignty
• independency
• self-government

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• enslavement
• bondage
• servitude
• yoke
• imprisonment
• serfdom
• captivity
• conquest
• incarceration
• subjugation
• internment
• thralldom
• enchainment

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of liberation

During the Cold War, Washington cast itself as the defender of the free world against totalitarian domination; Moscow portrayed itself as the patron of national liberation against Western colonialism. — Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026

The tapes were hidden for decades after the 1996 overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president and a leader of the African liberation movement. — Jack Dunn, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

The director Peter Sellars, who staged the piece’s first production last year, also worked with me on assembling the libretto, and Peter is a force of liberation. — Matthew Aucoin, The New York Review of Books, 10 Oct. 2026

In 1944, a few weeks after the liberation of France, Georges Zurabishvili, who had emigrated to France from Georgia in the 1920s, was bundled into a car by three men with machine guns. — Tobias Grey, Air Mail, 10 Oct. 2026