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freedom
English
Etymology
From Middle English fredom, freedom, from Old English fr?od?m (“freedom, state of free-will, charter, emancipation, deliverance”), from Proto-West Germanic *frijad?m (“freedom”). Equivalent to free +? -dom. Cognate with North Frisian fridoem (“freedom”), Dutch vrijdom (“freedom”), Low German fr?dom (“freedom”), Middle High German vr?tuom (“freedom”), Norwegian fridom (“freedom”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: fr?'d?m, IPA(key): /?f?i?d?m/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f?id?m/
- Hyphenation: free?dom
Noun
freedom (countable and uncountable, plural freedoms)
- (uncountable) The state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved.
- (countable) The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.
- Frankness; openness; unreservedness.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 50:
- 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.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 50:
- Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum.
Usage notes
- Freedom from can be followed by various nouns, typically, fear, want, hunger, pain, hatred, disease, stress, depression, debt, poverty, necessity, violence, war, advertising, addiction, etc.
Synonyms
- liberty
- license
- exemption
Antonyms
- slavery
- imprisonment
- bondage
- constraint
- unfreedom
Derived terms
Translations
References
- freedom at OneLook Dictionary Search
- freedom in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- freedom in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- fordeem
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discharge
English
Etymology
From Middle English dischargen, from Anglo-Norman descharger and Old French deschargier (“to unload”), from Late Latin discarric? (“I unload”), equivalent to dis- +? charge.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation)
- (verb) IPA(key): /d?s?t???d?/
- (noun) IPA(key): /?d?st???d?/
- (verb) IPA(key): /d?s?t???d?/
- (US)
- (verb) enPR: d?schärj', IPA(key): /d?s?t???d?/
- (noun) enPR: d?s'chärj, IPA(key): /?d?st???d?/
Verb
discharge (third-person singular simple present discharges, present participle discharging, simple past and past participle discharged)
- To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 1
- O most dear mistress, / The sun will set before I shall discharge / What I must strive to do.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 3 scene 1
- To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
- To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
- To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
- To expel or let go.
- January 1, 1878, Herbert Spencer, Ceremonial Government, published in The Fortnightly Review No. 132
- Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirect muscular actions.
- January 1, 1878, Herbert Spencer, Ceremonial Government, published in The Fortnightly Review No. 132
- To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
- Mrs Partridge, upon this, immediately fell into a fury, and discharged the trencher on which she was eating, at the head of poor Jenny […]
- (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
- To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
- Synonyms: fire, let go, terminate; see also Thesaurus:lay off
- (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
- (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
- To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
- To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
- discharge his pieces
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter IV
- I ran forward, discharging my pistol into the creature's body in an effort to force it to relinquish its prey; but I might as profitably have shot at the sun.
- (logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
- To unload a ship or another means of transport.
- To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
- To give forth; to emit or send out.
- To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
- (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
- (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
Translations
Noun
discharge (countable and uncountable, plural discharges)
- (medicine, uncountable) Pus or exudate (other than blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to infection or pathology.
- The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 1
- Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come / In yours and my discharge.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 1
- The act of expelling or letting go.
- The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
- Synonym: firing
- The process of unloading something.
- The process of flowing out.
- (electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
- (medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
- (military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
- (hydrology) The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m3/s (cubic meters per second).
Translations
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