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Synonyms for privilege
ˈprɪv ə lɪdʒ, ˈprɪv lɪdʒpriv·i·lege

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Wiktionary2.8 / 4 votes

  1. privilegenoun

    Synonyms:
    franchise, prerogative, claim, advantage, right, immunity, liberty

  2. privilegenoun

    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; preferential treatment.

    Synonyms:
    liberty, claim, prerogative, advantage, franchise, immunity, right

  3. privilegenoun

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

    Synonyms:
    liberty, right, immunity, advantage, franchise, claim, prerogative

  4. privilegenoun

    A common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.

    Synonyms:
    advantage, prerogative, immunity, claim, right, liberty, franchise

English Synonyms and Antonyms2.3 / 3 votes

  1. privilegenoun

    A right is that which one may properly demand upon considerations of justice, morality, equity, or of natural or positive law. A right may be either general or special, natural or artificial. "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" are the natural and inalienable rights of all men; rights of property, inheritance, etc., are individual and special, and often artificial, as the right of inheritance by primogeniture. A privilege is always special, exceptional, and artificial; it is something not enjoyed by all, or only to be enjoyed on certain special conditions, a peculiar benefit, favor, advantage, etc. A privilege may be of doing or avoiding; in the latter case it is an exemption or immunity; as, a privilege of hunting or fishing; exemption from military service; immunity from arrest. A franchise is a specific right or privilege granted by the government or established as such by governmental authority; as, the elective franchise; a railroad franchise. A prerogative is an official right or privilege, especially one inherent in the royal or sovereign power; in a wider sense it is an exclusive and peculiar privilege which one possesses by reason of being what he is; as, reason is the prerogative of man; kings and nobles have often claimed prerogatives and privileges opposed to the inherent rights of the people. Compare DUTY; JUSTICE.

    Synonyms:
    claim, exemption, franchise, immunity, liberty, license, prerogative, right

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms1.9 / 9 votes

  1. privilege

    Synonyms:
    prerogative, im-munity, franchise, right, liberty, advantage, claim, exemption

    Antonyms:
    disfranchisement, disqualification, exclusion, prohibition, inhibition

Princeton's WordNet1.7 / 3 votes

  1. privilegenoun

    a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all

    Synonyms:
    perquisite, prerogative, exclusive right

  2. prerogative, privilege, perquisite, exclusive rightnoun

    a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)

    "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males"

    Synonyms:
    fringe benefit, perquisite, perk, prerogative, exclusive right

  3. privilegeverb

    (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship

    Synonyms:
    perquisite, prerogative, exclusive right

  4. privilege, favor, favourverb

    bestow a privilege upon

    Synonyms:
    favor, favour, prefer

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Dictionary of English Synonymes1.5 / 2 votes

  1. privilegenoun

    Synonyms:
    prerogative, right, claim, advantage, immunity, franchise, liberty, favor

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words2.0 / 2 votes

  1. privilegenoun

    Synonyms:
    liberty, right, franchise, prerogative, immunity, advantage

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "privilege":

    privileges, prerogative, privileged, lien, honour, imtiaz, concession, honor

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How to use privilege in a sentence?

  1. Francis Quarles:

    Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

  2. Émile Durkheim:

    Man's characteristic privilege is that the bond he accepts is not physical but moral; that is, social. He is governed not by a material environment brutally imposed on him, but by a conscience superior to his own, the superiority of which he feels. Because the greater, better part of his existence transcends the body, he escapes the body's yoke, but is subject to that of society.

  3. Guadalupe Segovia:

    I think weapons should be a privilege and for safety, not to go and kill people.

  4. Jimena Blanco:

    With her middle-class roots Vidal acts as counterweight to Macri, whom Scioli's Front for Victory party often portrays as a neo-liberal born into money and privilege.

  5. Alexis Ohanian:

    I think every little bit of progress forward is a step in the right direction, i can't help but think that it will continue to be incumbent upon, I'll certainly say people like me dudes who have positions of power and influence and privilege to find ways to spotlight, to support, to champion and to do the work.


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