freedom
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
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. Cognate with North Frisian fridoem (“freedom”), Dutch vrijdom (“freedom”), Low German frīdom (“freedom”), Middle High German vrītuom (“freedom”), Norwegian fridom (“freedom”).
Base: free
Affixes: -dom
Inflected forms:
form: freedoms
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The state of being free.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Having recently been released from prison, he didn't know what to do with his newfound freedom.
Well Russia at the present time is at a crossroads. It is often said that the Cold War is over and that the West has won it- that's only half true. Because what has happened is that the communists have been defeated, but the ideas of freedom now are on trial. If they don't work, there will be a reversion to, not communism which has failed, but what I call a new despotism which would pose a mortal danger to the rest of the world because it would be infected with the virus of Russian imperialism which of course has been a characteristic of Russian foreign policy for centuries.
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.
gloss: The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Freedom of speech is a basic democratic value.
People in our city enjoy many freedoms.
Every child has a right to freedom from fear and freedom from want.
The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe- a desolate, dry planet with vast deserts. Hidden away within the rocks of these deserts are a people known as the Fremen, who have long held a prophecy, that a man would come, a messiah, who would lead them to true freedom. The planet is Arrakis, also known as Dune.
China's experience reminded me of the French and Russian revolutions. The pattern was the same: People seized control by promising to promote certain ideals. Once they had consolidated power, they abused it, casting aside their beliefs and brutalizing their fellow citizens. It was as if mankind had a sickness that it kept inflicting on itself. The sobering thought deepened my conviction that freedom— economic, political, and religious — is the only fair and productive way of governing a society.
The dispatches […] also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies. Having lectured the Arab world about democracy for years, its collusion in suppressing freedom was undeniable as protesters were met by weaponry and tear gas made in the west, employed by a military trained by westerners.
“When I lived in North Korea, I never had the freedom to wear what I wanted, but I never questioned it because I didn’t know this freedom existed,” said Jihyun Kang, 31, who grew up in Chongjin, the third-largest city in North Korea.
[Chris] Green asked for the same freedoms he had been given in Scotland, and Reid and Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley agreed.
gloss: The right or privilege of unrestricted use or access
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Freedom of a city
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.
The freedom of the city can now only be acquired by birth or servitude; but many were formerly admitted by gift and purchase, a fine of from £ 3 to £ 25, according to trade, being charged on the admission of strangers.
gloss: Frankness; openness; unreservedness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I doubt not, that you will take amiss my freedom; but as you have deserved it from me, I shall be less and less concerned on that score, as I see you are more and more intent to show your wit at the expense of justice and compassion.
gloss: Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: "A first love is not easily extinguished, Mr. Allanson," said she. "You may guess from my appearance, that I have been fortunate in life; but, for all that, my first love for you has continued the same, unaltered and unchanged, and you must forgive the little freedoms I used to-day to try your affections, and the effects my appearance would have on you."
Synonyms: liberty
license
exemption
Antonyms: bondage
constraint
imprisonment
slavery
unfreedom
Derived words: antifreedom
degree of freedom
enfreedom
fifth freedom rights
first freedom rights
fourth freedom rights
free as in freedom
freedom ain't free
freedom bread
freedom-camp
freedom camp
freedom camper
freedom camping
freedom colony
freedom dressing
freedom fight
freedom fighter
freedom fighting
freedom fine
freedom freckles
freedom fries
freedom gas
freedomism
freedom is not free
freedom isn't free
Freedomite
freedom kiss
freedomless
freedom march
freedom ride
freedom rider
freedom school
freedom tickler
freedom toast
freedom to roam
freedom units
freedomware
freedumb
freetard
Gay Freedom Day
let freedom ring
non-freedom
nonfreedom
overfreedom
second freedom rights
Space Station Freedom
third freedom rights
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