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LIBERALIST

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties

Synonyms:

liberal; liberalist; progressive

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Nouns denoting people

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

adult; grownup (a fully developed person from maturity onward)

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

armchair liberal (a person of liberal ideals who takes no action to realize them)

latitudinarian (a person who is broad-minded and tolerant (especially in standards of religious belief and conduct))

neoliberal (a liberal who subscribes to neoliberalism)

pluralist (someone who believes that distinct ethnic or cultural or religious groups can exist together in society)

Whig (a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories)

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