Word Meanings - PRIVILEGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See CHILDREN (more info) law against or in favor of an individual; privus private + lex, 1. A peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity not enjoyed by others or by all; special enjoyment

Additional info about word: PRIVILEGE

See CHILDREN (more info) law against or in favor of an individual; privus private + lex, 1. 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. He pleads the legal privilege of a Roman. Kettlewell. The privilege birthright was a double portion. Locke. A people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties. Burke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRIVILEGE)

• Admittance
• Introduction
• entrance
• pass
• permit
• passport
• privilege
• acceptance
• welcome
• reception
• Claim Demand
• ask
• require
• insist
• pretense
• right
• title
• request
• maintain
• Claim
• Assertion
• vindication
• pretension
• arrogation
• demand
• Dispensation
• Economy
• dealing
• revelation
• distribution
• arrangement
• visitation
• exemption
• immunity
• abandonment
• dismissal
• disuse
• indulgence
• Exemption
• Freedom
• dispensation
• license

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PRIVILEGE)

• Forego
• waive
• disclaim
• abjure
• disavow
• abandon
• concede
• surrender
• repudiate

Related words: (words related to PRIVILEGE)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• TITLELESS
  Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer.
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• TITLED
  Having or bearing a title.
• PERMIT
  1. To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with. What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker. 2. To grant express license or liberty
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• TITLER
  A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
• DEALBATION
  Act of bleaching; a whitening.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• INSISTURE
  A dwelling or standing on something; fixedness; persistence. Shak.
• DISAVOWANCE
  Disavowal. South.
• VISITATION
  The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually
• DISAVOWMENT
  Disavowal. Wotton.
• DISAVOWER
  One who disavows.
• DEALFISH
  A long, thin fish of the arctic seas .
• PERMITTER
  One who permits. A permitter, or not a hinderer, of sin. J. Edwards.
• ADMITTANCE
  The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate. Bouvier. Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. -- Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined to its
• INSISTENCE
  The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency.
• REVELATION
  1. The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them. 2. That which is revealed. The act of revealing divine truth. That which is revealed by God to man; esp., the Bible. By revelation he made known unto
• BRIGHT
  See I
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• THYROIDEAL
  Thyroid.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• ACCLAIM
  1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.
• IDEALISTIC
  Of or pertaining to idealists or their theories.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• SHRIGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.