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Etymology [edit]
From Middle English freedom, fredom, from Old English frēodōm (“freedom, state of free-will, charter, emancipation, deliverance”), from Proto-Germanic *frijadōmaz (“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”).
Pronunciation [edit]
freedom (countable and uncountable; plural freedoms)
- (uncountable) The state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
- Having recently been released from prison, he didn't know what to do with his newfound freedom.
- (countable) The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.
- 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.
Usage notes [edit]
- The phrase "freedom from" can have as an object: fear, want, hunger, pain, disease, stress, depression, debt, poverty, necessity, violence, war, advertising, addiction, etc.
Synonyms [edit]
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terms derived from freedom (noun)
Translations [edit]
not being imprisoned or enslaved
- Afrikaans: vryheid (af)
- Albanian: liri (sq)
- Amharic: አርነት (am)
- Arabic: حرية (ar) (ḥurríyya) f
- Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
- Armenian: ազատություն (hy) (azatut‘yun)
- Aromanian: please add this translation if you can
- Asturian: llibertá (ast) f
- Azeri: azadlıq (az), hürriyət (az)
- Bashkir: ирек (irek), хөрриәт (xörriät)
- Basque: askatasun (eu), libertate (eu)
- Belarusian: свабода (be) (svabóda) f, вольнасць (be) (vól'nasc') f
- Bengali: স্বাধীনতা (bn) (shadhinôta)
- Breton: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: свобода (bg) (svobóda) f, волност (bg) (vólnost) f
- Burmese: လွတ်လပ်ခွင့် (my) (lutlat-hkwin.)
- Catalan: llibertat (ca) f
- Cebuano: kagawasan
- Cherokee: ᏠᎯ ᎠᏕᏗ (chr) (tlohi adedi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 自由 (cmn) (zìyóu)
- Crimean Tatar: azatlıq
- Czech: svoboda (cs) f
- Danish: frihed (da) c
- Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
- Dutch: vrijheid (nl) f, vrijdom (nl) m
- Esperanto: libereco (eo)
- Estonian: vabadus (et)
- Faroese: frælsi (fo) n
- Finnish: vapaus (fi)
- French: liberté (fr) f
- Friulian: please add this translation if you can
- Galician: liberdade (gl) f
- Georgian: თავისუფლება (ka) (t'avisup'leba)
- German: Freiheit (de) f
- Greek: ελευθερία (el) (elefthería) f
- Gujarati: please add this translation if you can
- Haitian Creole: libète
- Hausa: please add this translation if you can
- Hebrew: חוֹפֶשׁ (he) (khófesh) m
- Hindi: स्वतंत्रता (hi) (svatantratā), आज़ादी (hi) (āzādī) f
- Hungarian: szabadság (hu), függetlenség (hu)
- Icelandic: frelsi (is) n
- Ido: libereso (io)
- Indonesian: kebebasan (id)
- Interlingua: libertate (ia)
- Irish: saoirse (ga) f
- Italian: libertà (it)
- Japanese: 自由 (ja) (じゆう, jiyū)
- Kannada: ಸ್ವಾತಂತ್ರ್ಯ (kn) (svātantrya)
- Kazakh: азаттық (kk) (azattıq)
- Khmer: សេរីភាព (km) (sayray-peeup)
- Korean: 자유 (ko) (jayu) (自由 (ko))
- Kurdish: ڕزگاری (ku), serbestî (ku)
- Kyrgyz: азаттык (ky) (azattık), эркиндик (ky) (erkindik), боштондук (ky) (boştonduk)
- Lao: ອິດສະຫຼະພາບ (lo) (it sa la phāp)
- Latin: lībertās (la) f
- Latvian: brīvība (lv) f
- Lithuanian: laisvė (lt) f
- Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
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- Macedonian: слобода (mk) (slóboda) f
- Malay: merdeka (ms), kebebasan (ms)
- Malayalam: സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യം (ml) (svātantryaṁ)
- Maltese: libertà (mt) f
- Maori: please add this translation if you can
- Marathi: please add this translation if you can
- Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
- Mongolian: эрх чөлөө (mn) (erh čölöö)
- Nepali: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: fridom (no)
- Bokmål: frihet (nb)
- Novial: please add this translation if you can
- Occitan: libertat (oc)
- Old Frisian: fridom
- Oriya: please add this translation if you can
- Ossetian: сӕрибардзинад (særibardzinad)
- Pashto: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: آزادی (fa) (âzâdi)
- Polish: wolność (pl) f, swoboda (pl) f
- Portuguese: liberdade (pt) f
- Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
- Rajasthani: please add this translation if you can
- Romanian: libertate (ro) f, slobod (ro) f
- Romansch: libertad (rm) f (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran), liberted (rm) f (Puter), libertà (rm) f (Vallader)
- Russian: свобода (ru) (svobóda) f, воля (ru) (vólja) f, вольность (ru) (vól'nost') f
- Sardinian: please add this translation if you can
- Scottish Gaelic: saorsa (gd) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: слобода (sh) f
- Roman: sloboda (sh) f
- Sicilian: libbirtati (scn) f, libbirtà (scn) f, libirtati (scn) f, libirtà (scn) f
- Silesian: wolność
- Sindhi: please add this translation if you can
- Sinhalese: නිදහස (si) (nidahasa)
- Slovak: sloboda (sk) f
- Slovene: svoboda (sl) f, prostost (sl) f
- Somali: please add this translation if you can
- Spanish: libertad (es) f
- Swahili: uhuru (sw)
- Swedish: frihet (sv)
- Tagalog: kalayaan (tl)
- Tajik: озодӣ (tg) (ozodī)
- Tamil: விடுதலை (ta) (viṭutalai)
- Tatar: азатлык (tt) (azatlıq), ирек (tt) (ireq)
- Telugu: స్వతంత్రము (te) (svatantramu)
- Thai: อิสรภาพ (th) (ìt-sà-rà-pâap)
- Turkish: özgürlük (tr), hürriyet (tr)
- Turkmen: azatlyk (tk)
- Ukrainian: свобода (uk) (svobóda) f, вільність (uk) (víl'nist') f
- Urdu: آزادی (ur) (āzādī) f
- Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
- Uzbek: ozodlik (uz), erkinlik (uz), hurlik (uz), hurriyat (uz)
- Vietnamese: sự tự do (vi), nền tự do (vi)
- Volapük: please add this translation if you can
- Walloon: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: rhyddid (cy) m
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The lack of a specific constraint
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