LIBERATOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liberator mean? 

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

1. someone who releases people from captivity or bondage

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIBERATOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who releases people from captivity or bondage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

benefactor; helper (a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "liberator"):

emancipator; manumitter (someone who frees others from bondage)

Antonym:

captor (a person who captures and holds people or animals)

Derivation:

liberate (grant freedom to; free from confinement)

liberate (grant freedom to)