liberal:
(plural: ‘liberals‘; pronunciation: the letter ‘i’ rhymes with the letter ‘i’ in “ink”)

a liberal showing off her liberalism
a person with wide understanding of things around us;
a person who is in favour of change, i.e. who likes or supports the idea of change in the behaviour, in the customs and in the common and political thinking of people in a society;
(always with the first ‘L’ in capital) a member of a liberal political party,

Liberal from US and UK
A person who supports and encourages widow marriages in some Asian countries is a liberal, and a businessman who supports free market is a liberal.
A person who supports and encourages a political system without the involvement of religion is a liberal.
Those Liberals of the UK that split from the original Liberal Party in 1931, reformed again in 2006 under the name National Liberal Party.
Unfortunately, in the Muslim world, the liberals who were behind the recent revolutions in several countries in the Muslim world have been pushed back by the Islamists who are less tolerant to liberalism.
