English noun: civil liberty | |||
1. | civil liberty (state) one's freedom to exercise one's rights as guaranteed under the laws of the country | ||
Synonyms | political liberty | ||
Broader (hypernym) | freedom | ||
2. | civil liberty (attribute) fundamental individual right protected by law and expressed as immunity from unwarranted governmental interference | ||
Broader (hypernym) | civil right | ||
Domain category | jurisprudence, law | ||