EMANCIPATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does emancipation mean? 

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

1. freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMANCIPATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

freeing; liberation; release (the act of liberating someone or something)

Derivation:

emancipate (free from slavery or servitude)

emancipate (give equal rights to; of women and minorities)

emancipationist (a reformer who favors abolishing slavery)