Roget's Thesaurus

#748. Freedom

Nouns

freedom, liberty, independence; license etc. (permission) 760; facility etc. 705. scope, range, latitude, play; free play, full play, free scope, full scope; free stage and no favor; swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth; Liberty Hall. franchise, denization; free man, freed man, livery man; denizen. autonomy, self-government, liberalism, free trade; noninterference etc. 706; Monroe Doctrine [U.S.]. immunity, exemption; emancipation etc. (liberation) 750; enfranchisement, affranchisement. free land, freehold; allodium; frankalmoigne [Fr.], mortmain [Fr.]. bushwhacker; freelance, free thinker, free trader; independent.

Verbs

be free etc. adj.; have scope etc. n., have the run of, have one's own way, have a will of one's own, have one's fling; do what one likes, do what one wishes, do what one pleases, do what one chooses; go at large, feel at home, paddle one's own canoe; stand on one's legs, stand on one's rights; shift for oneself. take a liberty; make free with, make oneself quite at home; use a freedom; take leave, take French leave. set free etc. (liberate) 750; give a loose to etc. (permit) 760; allow scope etc. n.. to, give scope etc. n.. to; give a horse his head. make free of; give the freedom of, give the franchise; enfranchise, affranchise. laisser faire [Fr.], laisser aller [Fr.]; live and let live; leave to oneself; leave alone, let alone.

Adjectives

free, free as air; out of harness, independent, at large, loose, scot-free; left alone, left to oneself. in full swing; uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined, unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented, unhindered, unobstructed, unbound, uncontrolled, untrammeled. unsubject, ungoverned, unenslaved, unenthralled, unchained, unshackled, unfettered, unreined, unbridled, uncurbed, unmuzzled. unrestricted, unlimited, unmitigated, unconditional; absolute; discretionary etc. (optional) 600. unassailed, unforced, uncompelled. unbiassed, spontaneous. free and easy; at ease, at one's ease; degage [Fr.], quite at home; wanton, rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished. exempt; freed etc. 750; freeborn; autonomous, freehold, allodial; gratis etc. 815; eleutherian. unclaimed, going a begging.

Adverbs

freely etc. adj.; ad libitum etc. (at will) 600.

Phrases

ubi libertas ibi patria [Lat.]; free white and twenty-one.