freedom
freedom is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 6 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Privileges; franchises; immunities. Your charter and your caty's freedom. Shak.
- 2.Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will.
- 3.Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom.
- 4.Frankness; openness; unreservedness. I emboldened spake and freedom used. Milton.
- 5.Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license.
- 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
- see liberty
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accord
- all
- and
- authority
- cause
- choice
- choose
- conation
- course
- desire
- determination
- determine
- discretion
- enjoin
- exercise
- fit
- force
- frame
- free
- have
- inclination
- intention
- into
- law
- list
- mind
- one
- oneself
- option
- originality
- originate
- own
- pleasure
- predetermination
- resolution
- resolve
- see
- settle
- spontaneity
- take
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is freedom.
- What is privileges; franchises; immunities. Your charter and your caty's freedom. Shak called?
- What is exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will called?
- What is ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom called?
- What is frankness; openness; unreservedness. I emboldened spake and freedom used. Milton called?
- What is improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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