freedom
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
freedom/ˈfriːdəm/
▶noun
- 1 the power or right to act, speak, or think freely.
■ the state of having free will.
- 2 the state of being free.
■ unrestricted use of something.
- 3 (freedom from) the state of not being subject to or affected by (something undesirable).
- 4 Brit. a special privilege or right of access, especially that of full citizenship of a particular city given to a public figure as an honour: he accepted the freedom of the City of Glasgow.
- 5 archaic familiarity or openness in speech or behaviour.
'freedom' also found in these Oxford entries:
authoritarian
- autonomy
- blank cheque
- captive
- carte blanche
- civil liberty
- civil rights
- comfort
- commitment
- congested
- convenience
- degree of freedom
- discretion
- -dom
- ease
- enslave
- equipartition
- extraterritorial
- fee simple
- frank
- free
- freedom fighter
- freehold
- freeman
- free-range
- Gallican
- head
- impunity
- individualism
- jazz age
- kick-pleat
- kwacha
- latitude
- leeway
- licence
- licentiate
- licentious
- mitigate
- muzzle
- open society
- option
- paternalism
- peace
- permissive
- play
- privacy
- redeem
- rein
- repressive
