Webster's English Dictionary

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freedom

free.dom \'fre-d-*m\ n 1: the quality or state of being free : as  1a: the 
   absence of necessity, coercion, or constraint in choice or action  1b: 
   liberation from slavery or restraint or from the power of another : 
   (MINDEPENDENCE 1c: EXEMPTION, RELEASE  1d: EASE, FACILITY  1e: FRANKNESS, 
   OUTSPOKENNESS  1f: improper familiarity  1g: boldness of conception or 
   execution  1h: unrestricted use  2a: a political right  2b: FRANCHISE, 
   PRIVILEGE ion of acting without compulsion. FREEDOM has a broad range and 
   may imply total absence of restraint even as imposed by necessity, or 
   moderate absence of restraint, or merely an unawareness of being unduly 
   hampered or frustrated; LIBERTY implies the power to choose what one does 
   or says as distinguished from lack of inhibition in doing or saying; it may 
   also imply more strongly than FREEDOM a release from restraint or 
   compulsion; LICENSE implies liberty that consists in breaking laws or rules 
   either as an abuse or as the exercise of special privilege SYN syn FREEDOM, 
   LIBERTY, LICENSE mean the power or condit