What does "freedom" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will.
2. 3.Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom.
3. 4.Frankness; openness; unreservedness. I emboldened spake and freedom used. Milton.
4. 5.Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license.
5. 6.Generosity; liberality. [Obs.] Chaucer. Freedom fine, a sum paid on entry to incorporations of trades. -- Freedom of the city, the possession of the rights and privileges of a freeman of the city; formerly often, and now occasionally, conferred on one not a resident, as a mark of honorary distinction for public services.