Term: civil right: right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality
Candidate hypernym: human right: (law) any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law) → 1
Candidate hypernym: needle biopsy: biopsy of deep tissue that is obtained through a hollow needle → 0
Candidate hypernym: electron: an elementary particle with negative charge → 0
Candidate hypernym: size: the actual state of affairs → 0
Candidate hypernym: high table: a dining table in a dining-hall raised on a platform; seats are reserved for distinguished persons → 0
Candidate hypernym: badaga: the dialect of Kannada that is spoken by the Badaga → 0
Candidate hypernym: antipyretic: any medicine that lowers body temperature to prevent or alleviate fever → 0
Candidate hypernym: letterer: a painter of letters → 0
Candidate hypernym: sense: the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted → 0
Candidate hypernym: caviar: salted roe of sturgeon or other large fish; usually served as an hors d'oeuvre → 0
Candidate hypernym: renal vein: veins that accompany renal arteries; open into the vena cava at the level of the 2nd lumbar vertebra → 0