Emancipate Definition & Meaning | Britannica Dictionary (original) (raw)

Britannica Dictionary definition of EMANCIPATE

:

to free (someone) from someone else's control or power

• emancipate a slave

• He felt the only way to emancipate himself from his parents was to move away.

• an emancipated slave

• She considers herself an emancipated woman. [=a woman who is free from old social limitations and customs]

— emancipation

/ɪˌmænsəˈpeɪʃən/

noun

[noncount]

• the emancipation of the slaves

— emancipator

/ɪˈmænsəˌpeɪtɚ/

noun,

plural

emancipators

chiefly US

[count]

• an emancipator of slaves
• Abraham Lincoln is sometimes called the Great Emancipator.