privileges

Meaning of privileges

plural noun
  1. a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.
    education is a right, not a privilege
    he has been accustomed all his life to wealth and privilege
verb, 3rd person present
  1. grant a privilege or privileges to.
    English inheritance law privileged the eldest son

Middle English: via Old French from Latin privilegium ‘bill or law affecting an individual’, from privus ‘private’ + lex, leg- ‘law’.

Information about privileges

  • The singular form of privileges is: privilege.
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Hyphenation of privileges

priv-i-leges

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • privileges is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

privileges synonyms

Meaning a favourable or desirable feature:

advantage

Meaning a moral or legal entitlement to have or do something:

right

Meaning an advantage or profit gained from something:

benefit

Meaning a right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class:

prerogative

Meaning the fact of having a right to something:

entitlement

Meaning a particular right of possession or privilege a person has from birth, especially as an eldest son:

birthright

Meaning one's right; what is owed to one:

due

Meaning the right to use land or other property for a specified purpose, granted by a government, company, or other controlling body:

concession

Meaning the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants:

freedom

Meaning a right or privilege, especially a statutory one:

liberty

Words that rhyme with privileges

spheges, assieges, besieges, lieges, sieges, alleges, colleges, disprivileges, leges, misalleges, noncolleges, postcolleges, precolleges, sacrileges, sortileges, spicileges, subcolleges, Meges, reneges, Reges, bareges, interreges, reges, urosteges, veges

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