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liberty is a noun:

  1. The condition of being free from control or restrictions.
    "The army is here, your liberty is assured."
  2. The condition of being free from imprisonment, slavery or forced labour.
    "The prisoners gained their liberty from an underground tunnel."
  3. The condition of being free to act, believe or express oneself as one chooses.
    "The prisoners were at liberty to speak freely with their lawyers."
  4. Freedom from excess government control.
  5. A short period when a sailor is allowed ashore.
    "We're going on a three-day liberty as soon as we dock."
  6. A breach of social convention (often liberties).
    "You needn't take such liberties."

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What type of word is liberty?

As detailed above, 'liberty' is a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: The army is here, your liberty is assured.
  2. Noun usage: The prisoners gained their liberty from an underground tunnel.
  3. Noun usage: The prisoners were at liberty to speak freely with their lawyers.
  4. Noun usage: We're going on a three-day liberty as soon as we dock.
  5. Noun usage: You needn't take such liberties.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of liberty are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of liberty, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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