A Quick and Simple Dictionary

Liberal

1. Proper noun.  (politics) A member or supporter of a Liberal Party.
2. Proper noun.  (Canada) A member or supporter of the Liberal Party of Canada, or its predecessors, or provincial equivalents, or their predecessors.
3. Proper noun.  (British) A Liberal Democrat.
4. Proper noun.  (British, dated) A Whig.
5. Adjective.  Of or relating to the Liberal party, its membership, or its platform, policy, or viewpoint.
6. Adjective.  Generous, in great amount, a large proportion.
7. Adjective.  (context, now) Pertaining to those arts and sciences whose study was considered "worthy of a free man" (as opposed to (term, servile) , (term, mechanical) ); worthy, befitting a gentleman.
8. Adjective.  Generous, bountiful.
9. Adjective.  Generous in quantity, abundant.
10. Adjective.  (obsolete) Unrestrained, licentious.
11. Adjective.  Free from prejudice or narrow-mindedness; open-minded, open to new ideas, willing to depart from established opinions, conventions etc.; permissive.
12. Adjective.  (politics) Open to political or social changes and reforms in favour of increased freedom or democracy.
13. Noun.  One with liberal views, supporting individual liberty (see Wikipedia on Liberalism for a description of the various and diverging trends of liberalism).
14. Noun.  A supporter of any of the particular liberal parties.
15. Noun.  (US) One on the left-wing of the American political spectrum. Sometimes used pejoratively in political campaigns.
16. Noun.  (italbrac, US) A person who favors individual voting rights, human and civil rights, individual gun rights, laissez-faire markets, and the gold standard.