freedom
//ˈfɹiːdəm//
Forms
- Plural
- freedoms
Definitions
1.The state of being free.
- Having recently been released from prison, he didn't know what to do with his newfound freedom.
- However, the next generation of innovators to benefit from this freedom – Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple et al – saw no reason to extend it to anyone else.
2.The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.
- People in our city enjoy many freedoms.
- Freedom of speech is a basic democratic value.
- Every child has a right to freedom from fear and freedom from want.
3.The right or privilege of unrestricted use or access
- Yet the wisest princes, who adopted the maxims of Augustus, guarded with the strictest care the dignity of the Roman name, and diffused the freedom of the city with a prudent liberality.
4.Frankness; openness; unreservedness.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1110
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
Etymology
From Middle English fredom, freedom, from Old English frēodōm (“freedom, state of free-will, charter, emancipation, deliverance”), from Proto-West Germanic *frijadōm (“freedom”).
Equivalent to free + -dom.