Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining or relating to Liberia, a country on the western coast of Africa, colonized with liberated Africans by the American Colonization Society (beginning in 1822), and made a republic in 1847.
  • noun An inhabitant of Liberia.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A native or inhabitant of Liberia.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to Liberia.
  • adjective of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Liberia.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person from Liberia or of Liberian descent.
  • adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Liberia or the Liberian people.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of or relating to Liberia or its people
  • noun a native or inhabitant of Liberia

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Examples

  • LEYMAH GBOWEE, LIBERIAN PEACE ACTIVIST: So (inaudible) today is to send out a signal to the world that we, the Liberian women in Ghana, at this conference, we are fed up with the war, and we are doing this to tell the world we are tired of fighting, the killing of our people.

    CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2009 2009

  • LEYMAH GBOWEE, LIBERIAN PEACE ACTIVIST: So (inaudible) today is to send out a signal to the world that we, the Liberian women in Ghana, at this conference, we are fed up with the war, and we are doing this to tell the world we are tired of fighting, the killing of our people.

    CNN Transcript Oct 30, 2009 2009

  • Sunderland in his "Liberian Colonization," _Liberian Bulletin_, No. 16, 18, says this meeting was virtually a failure.

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 Various

  • THE LIBERIAN PEOPLE HAVE DECIDED, NOT ONCE, BUT TWICE; the TRC's Final Report cannot set aside the Liberian people's verdict.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2009

  • These freed slaves formed an elite group in Liberian society, and, in 1847, formed a government based on that of the United States, naming their capital city after James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States .

    Clinton in Liberia for meeting with president 2009

  • TheLiberianTimes. com provides the latest Liberian, African, and World News from the most trusted name in Liberian news, now ranked as the #1 most read Liberian news website by Ranking. com.

    Global Voices in English » Liberians Are Talking, Are You Listening? 2009

  • These include the near-endemic white-eyed prinia Prinia leontica (VU), the grey-winged robinchat Cossypha polioptera, lemon dove Columba larvata, Sharp's apalis Apalis sharpei, whitenecked rockfowl Picathartes gymnocephalus (VU) and Nimba flycatcher Melaenornis annamarulae (VU), A detailed account of birds in Liberian Nimba is given in Coston & Curry-Lindahl (1986).

    Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008

  • A strong central government that can produce jobs, while turning on water and electrical systems is seen as crucial for long-term Liberian peace.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • The document called the Liberian catalogue of popes puts the beginning of his pontificate in the year 223 and its close in the year 230.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • Bestsellers from the Guardian shop Liberia presidential election is thrown into chaos by opposition's boycott call Liberian president eyes second term after former warlord's election backing

    The Guardian World News Tamasin Ford 2011

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