EMANCIPATOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emancipator mean? 

• EMANCIPATOR (noun)
  The noun EMANCIPATOR has 1 sense:

1. someone who frees others from bondage

  Familiarity information: EMANCIPATOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMANCIPATOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who frees others from bondage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

emancipator; manumitter

Context example:

Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator

Hypernyms ("emancipator" is a kind of...):

liberator (someone who releases people from captivity or bondage)

Derivation:

emancipate (free from slavery or servitude)