Meaning of "libel" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LIBEL

(Written statement), hence C14 legal sense: a plaintiff's statement, via Old French from Latin libellus a little book, from liber a book.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF LIBEL

libel  [ˈlaɪbəl]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LIBEL

Libel is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb libel in English.

WHAT DOES LIBEL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Defamation

Defamation—also called calumny, vilification, or traducement—is the communication of a false statement that harms the reputation of an individual, business, product, group, government, religion, or nation. Most jurisdictions allow legal action to deter various kinds of defamation and retaliate against groundless criticism. Under common law, to constitute defamation, a claim must generally be false and have been made to someone other than the person defamed. Some common law jurisdictions also distinguish between spoken defamation, called slander, and defamation in other media such as printed words or images, called libel. False light laws protect against statements which are not technically false but misleading. In some civil law jurisdictions, defamation is treated as a crime rather than a civil wrong. The United Nations Commission on Human Rights ruled in 2012 that the criminalization of libel violates freedom of expression and is inconsistent with Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. A person who defames another may be called a "defamer", "famacide", "libeler" or "slanderer".

Definition of libel in the English dictionary

The first definition of libel in the dictionary is the publication of defamatory matter in permanent form, as by a written or printed statement, picture, etc. Other definition of libel is the act of publishing such matter. Libel is also any defamatory or unflattering representation or statement.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO LIBEL

PRESENT

Present

I libel

you libel

he/she/it libels

we libel

you libel

they libel

Present continuous

I am libelling

you are libelling

he/she/it is libelling

we are libelling

you are libelling

they are libelling

Present perfect

I have libelled

you have libelled

he/she/it has libelled

we have libelled

you have libelled

they have libelled

Present perfect continuous

I have been libelling

you have been libelling

he/she/it has been libelling

we have been libelling

you have been libelling

they have been libelling

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I libelled

you libelled

he/she/it libelled

we libelled

you libelled

they libelled

Past continuous

I was libelling

you were libelling

he/she/it was libelling

we were libelling

you were libelling

they were libelling

Past perfect

I had libelled

you had libelled

he/she/it had libelled

we had libelled

you had libelled

they had libelled

Past perfect continuous

I had been libelling

you had been libelling

he/she/it had been libelling

we had been libelling

you had been libelling

they had been libelling

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will libel

you will libel

he/she/it will libel

we will libel

you will libel

they will libel

Future continuous

I will be libelling

you will be libelling

he/she/it will be libelling

we will be libelling

you will be libelling

they will be libelling

Future perfect

I will have libelled

you will have libelled

he/she/it will have libelled

we will have libelled

you will have libelled

they will have libelled

Future perfect continuous

I will have been libelling

you will have been libelling

he/she/it will have been libelling

we will have been libelling

you will have been libelling

they will have been libelling

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would libel

you would libel

he/she/it would libel

we would libel

you would libel

they would libel

Conditional continuous

I would be libelling

you would be libelling

he/she/it would be libelling

we would be libelling

you would be libelling

they would be libelling

Conditional perfect

I would have libel

you would have libel

he/she/it would have libel

we would have libel

you would have libel

they would have libel

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been libelling

you would have been libelling

he/she/it would have been libelling

we would have been libelling

you would have been libelling

they would have been libelling

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you libel
we let´s libel
you libel

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to libel

Past participle

libelled

Present Participle

libelling

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «LIBEL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «libel» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of libel

aspersion · blacken · calumniate · calumny · defamation · defame · denigrate · denigration · derogate · malign · misrepresentation · obloquy · revile · slander · slur · smear · traduce · vilify · vituperation

TRANSLATION OF LIBEL

Find out the translation of libel to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of libel from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «libel» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 诽谤
• Translator English - Spanish: calumnia
• English: libel
• Translator English - Hindi: परिवाद
• Translator English - Arabic: التشهير
• Translator English - Russian: клевета
• Translator English - Portuguese: difamação
• Translator English - Bengali: পরনিন্দা
• Translator English - French: diffamation
• Translator English - Malay: Fitnah
• Translator English - German: Verleumdung
• Translator English - Japanese: 名誉棄損
• Translator English - Korean: 명예 훼손
• Translator English - Javanese: Libel
• Translator English - Vietnamese: viết đơn kiện
• Translator English - Tamil: அவதூறு
• Translator English - Marathi: बेअब्रू करणे
• Translator English - Turkish: karalama
• Translator English - Italian: diffamazione
• Translator English - Polish: zniesławienie
• Translator English - Ukrainian: наклеп
• Translator English - Romanian: calomnie
• Translator English - Greek: δυσφήμηση
• Translator English - Afrikaans: laster
• Translator English - Swedish: förtal
• Translator English - Norwegian: injurier

8 QUOTES WITH «LIBEL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word libel.

1

Floyd Abrams

No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People sometimes meet that high burden and win libel suits, and in those cases I think they ought to win.

2

J. William Fulbright

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled.

3

Uri Geller

I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.

4

Henry Anatole Grunwald

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.

5

Ian Hislop

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

6

Bill Keller

I don't think that there is absolute freedom of the press. We operate under laws - against libel, for instance. The idea that there is some absolute press freedom is kind of a myth.

7

James Payn

It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.

8

Mark Russell

If you call your opponent a politician, it's grounds for libel.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LIBEL»

Discover the use of libel in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to libel and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Libel and the Media: The Chilling Effect

This is an entertaining book which will appeal not only to journalists and lawyers, but also to all those with an interest in the freedom of the press and media studies generally.

E. M. Barendt, 1997

The Blood Libel Legend: A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore

According to the blood libel legend, Jews murdered Christian infants to obtain blood to make matzah. Dundes has gathered here the work of leading scholars who examine the varied sources and elaborations of the legend.

Alan Dundes, 1991

The Music Libel Against the Jews: Vocal Fictions of Noise ...

Ruth HaCohen focuses her study on a "musical libel"--a variation on the Passion story that recurs in various forms and cultures in which an innocent Christian boy is killed by a Jew in order to silence his “harmonious musicality.” In ...

Ruth HaCohen, 2012

Libel and Privacy

The handbook explains how the U.S. Supreme Court is now approaching constitutional libel law and setting the boundaries for invasion of privacy suits.

Bruce W. Sanford, 2004

Errors, Lies, and Libel

One of the many points Kane clarifies is the important distinction between an error and a lie when judging whether someone is guilty of libel. For example, in the series of events that led to Goldwater vs.

Peter E. Kane, 1992

Privacy and Libel Law: The Clash with Press Freedom

Privacy and Libel Law: The Clash with Press Freedom discusses the different approaches to the law of libel and privacy on either side of the Atlantic and the Rachel Ehrenfeld case that generated the lobbying campaign that eventually ...

Paul Tweed, 2012

A Lie and a Libel: The History of the Protocols of the ...

Translator Richard S. Levy, a specialist on the history of anti-semitism, provides an extensive introduction on the circumstances of Segel's work and the story of the Protocols up to the 1990s, including an explanation of its continuing ...

Binjamin W. Segel, Richard S. Levy, 1996

The Exile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia

" "This book is the inside story of how the tabloid came to be and how Ames and Taibbi broke their biggest stories - all the while playing hysterically vicious practical jokes, racking up innumerable death threats, and ingesting a ...

Mark Ames, Matt Taibbi, 2000

Blood Libel and Its Derivatives: The Scourge of Anti-Semitism

This volume aims to explain the origins of the charge of blood libel and define the ways its derivatives have achieved acceptance in certain parts of the world today.

Raphael Israeli, 2012

Blood Libel: The Damascus Affair Of 1840

By the time the rest of the world learns of the events in Damascus, the entire leadership of the Jewish community is awaiting execution. Blood Libel is a story of unexpected history.

Ronald Florence, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LIBEL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term libel is used in the context of the following news items.

FULL TEXT: VP Binay's P200-M libel suit against Trillanes …

Below is the full text of Vice President Jejomar Binay's P200-million libel suit against Senators Antonio Trillanes IV and Alan Peter Cayetano; ... «GMA News, Jul 15»

Anwar to resist evidence of conviction in libel suit | Free Malaysia …

KUALA LUMPUR: Jailed former opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim will oppose any attempt by S Nallakaruppan and Umno-linked newspaper ... «Free Malaysia Today, Jul 15»

July 19, 1898: Emile Zola Flees France After Being Convicted of …

After being convicted of libel, Zola fled to England on this day in 1898. He was allowed to return to France a year later. After Zola died in 1902, Frank Jewett ... «The Nation., Jul 15»

Ontario Immigration Minister Michael Chan serves libel notice on …

An Ontario cabinet minister is threatening the Globe and Mail with a lawsuit over stories it ran that said Canadian intelligence officials ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»

Traveller widow gets €20k for 'bringing body back in van' libel

A judge has awarded a grieving Traveller widow and her two brothers €30,000 in libel damages over a newspaper story which claimed efforts ... «Irish Examiner, Jul 15»

Gawker libel suit? Publication should be worried.

The story may well make the site the target of a libel suit—one that would be startlingly easy for the executive to win if not every single fact in the ... «Slate Magazine, Jul 15»

Ontario cabinet minister Michael Chan to launch libel suit against …

Ontario's minister of citizenship, immigration and international trade said Friday he is “proceeding with a libel suit against the Globe and Mail in ... «Toronto Star, Jul 15»

'Rolling Stone' Says It Didn't Libel UVa Dean With Discredited Exposé

Rolling Stone magazine says it did not libel a dean at the University of Virginia in a now-discredited article, “A Rape on Campus,” The ... «Chronicle of Higher Education, Jul 15»

Star Citizen Critic Fights Back, Accuses Dev Of Libel And False Light

Derek deftly explains that this is a case of false light, as well as libel. Cloud Imperium Games claimed Derek used their forums to promote his ... «Gameranx, Jul 15»

Personal Injury Firm Joins Swedish Model, Ex-Cravath Lawyer in …

Personal Injury Firm Joins Swedish Model, Ex-Cravath Lawyer in Libel Fray. Scott Flaherty, The Litigation Daily. July 16, 2015 | 0 Comments. share. share on ... «The Am Law Litigation Daily, Jul 15»