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Lib.

Lib. is the abbreviation of Liberal.

Lib. is the abbreviation of Library.

Lib. is the abbreviation of library science.

Meaning of Liberal

Noun

Liberal (plural Liberals)

  1. A political party and philosophy
  2. A member or supporter of a Liberal Party
  3. (Canadian) A member or supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada, or its predecessors, or provincial equivalents, or their predecessors
  4. (British) A Liberal Democrat.
  5. (British, dated) A Whig.
  6. (Australian) A member or supporter of the Liberal Party of Australia.

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Meaning of Library

Noun

library (plural libraries)

  1. An institution which holds books and/or other forms of media for use by the public or qualified people often lending them out, as well as providing various other services for its users.
    • She went to exchange her books at her local library.
  2. (broadly) Any institution that lends out its goods for use by the public or a community.
    • You can check out a bandsaw from the tool library.
  3. A collection of books or other forms of stored information.
    • A small library of books has been written on the subject.1896, Alfred Newton, A Dictionary of Birds, page 71
  4. A collection of information or reference materials not in book form.
    • She has the most impressive record library I've ever seen.
  5. A room dedicated to storing books.
  6. A collection of software routines that provide functionality to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.
    • A static library is much like any other library in that it contains a bunch of code for your application to use.2014, John Paul Mueller, Jeff Cogswell, C++ All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 307
    Synonyms:
    library file

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Questions about Lib.

What is Lib. the abbreviation of?
Lib. is the abbreviation of Liberal.

Words near Lib. in the dictionary

  1. lib out
  2. lib'ral
  3. lib'rals
  4. Lib-Lab
  5. Lib-Labs
  6. Lib.
  7. Libacao
  8. libacious
  9. Libagon
  10. libament
  11. libaments

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Lib. (page history and authors); Liberal (page history and authors); library (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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