emancipation Syllabification: (e·man·ci·pa·tion)Pronunciation: /iˌmansəˈpāSHən/Translate emancipation | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of emancipation noun the fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation:the emancipation of feminist ideas the freeing of someone from slavery: the early struggle for emancipation from slaveryemancipation in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of emancipation in the British & World English dictionary