libertine
/ˈlɪb.ə.tiːn//ˈlɪb.ɚ.tin/
libertine noun: someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.
Noun (1)
libertine (plural libertines)
- Someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.
Noun (2)
libertine (plural libertines)
- One who is freethinking in religious matters.
- Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.
- So the truth of the matter is that a libertine in love, if indeed a libertine can be in love, becomes from that moment in less of a hurry to enjoy the pleasures of the flesh.2007, Choderlos de Laclos, translated by Helen Constantine, Dangerous Liaisons, Penguin, page 123
Adjective
libertine (comparative more libertine, superlative most libertine)
- Dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals.
libertine meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
libertine in Hindi
- libertine
- कामुक kāmuk
libertine in Tamil
- கும்பன், தூர்த்தன், பல்லவன்
libertine in Urdu
- فاجر, لچا, رند
libertine in Bengali
- মুক্তদাস, একজন ভোগবিলাসে মত্ত ব্যক্তি, লম্পট, চরিত্রহীন, বেলেল্লাপনাপূর্ণ, নৈতিকতাবর্জিত
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- libertine in Telugu
- కామి kāmi
- libertine in Malayalam
- ദുർന്നടപ്പുകാരൻ, സദാചാരനിരതനല്ലാത്ത പുരുഷൻ, ലമ്പടൻ, ലിമ്പടൻ
- libertine in Kannada
- ಮಿಂಡ, ಹಾದರಿಗ, ಸವಿಗಾರ
- libertine in Sanskrit
- विदूषक vidūṣaka, नारङ्ग nāraṅga, स्वस्तिक svastika
- libertine in Assamese
- বনৰা bonora
- libertine in Vietnamese
- phóng đãng
Synonyms of libertine
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Antonyms
Forms of libertine
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | libertines |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more libertine |
| superlative | most libertine |
Origin of libertine
From Latin libertinus (“a freedman, prop. adj., of or belonging to the condition of a freedman”), from libertus (“a freedman”), from liber (“free”); see liberal, liberate.
From French libertin.
Questions about libertine
- What does libertine mean?
- Libertine means someone freed from slavery in Ancient Rome; a freedman.
- What is libertine in Hindi?
- Libertine in Hindi is कामुक (kāmuk). See Libertine meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is libertine?
- Libertine can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce libertine?
- Libertine is pronounced /ˈlɪb.ə.tiːn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of libertine?
- The plural of libertine is libertines.
Words near libertine in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: libertine (page history and authors); कामुक (Hindi) (page history and authors); libertine (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); libertine (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); libertine (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); కామి (Telugu) (page history and authors); libertine (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); libertine (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); नारङ्ग (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); বনৰা (Assamese) (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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