privilege

Speech parts

1. privilege - Noun

2. privilege - Verb

Meaning

A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment of a good, or exemption from an evil or burden; a prerogative; advantage; franchise.

See Call, Put, Spread, etc.

To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest.

To bring or put into a condition of privilege or exemption from evil or danger; to exempt; to deliver.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

prerogative liberty right claim favor immunity exclusive right advantage benefit honor license permission franchise concession exemption
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Antonyms

col bane millstone problem loss prevention
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Hypernyms

right allow advantage let permit countenance

Hyponyms

easement attorney-client privilege privilege of the floor marital communications privilege husband-wife privilege priest-penitent privilege

Phrases with the word

check your privilege shopkeeper's privilege be given a privilege or privilege professional privilege breaking attorney-client privilege

Derivatives

privileged privileging

Examples

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love. Marcus Aurelius

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too. Voltaire

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired. David Lloyd George

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. Charles Evans Hughes

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. Oprah Winfrey

To laugh at a man with sense is the privilege of fools. American Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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