privilege
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all
Types & categories
- advantage hypernym
Related & opposite
- privilege derivation
Sense 2 verb
bestow a privilege upon
Types & categories
- permit hypernym
Related & opposite
- favor derivation
- privilege derivation
- prerogative derivation
- favour derivation
Sense 3 noun
a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)
suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males
Types & categories
- right hypernym
- easement hyponym
- privilege of the floor hyponym
Related & opposite
- privilege derivation
Sense 4 noun
(law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship
Types & categories
- right hypernym
- attorney-client privilege hyponym
- informer's privilege hyponym
- journalist's privilege hyponym
- marital communications privilege hyponym
- physician-patient privilege hyponym
- priest-penitent privilege hyponym
Related & opposite
- law domain topic
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | privilege |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | advantage |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | favor |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | privilege |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | prerogative |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | favour |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | permit |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | privilege |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | right |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | easement |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | privilege of the floor |
| 4 | domain topic | Related & opposite | law |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | right |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | attorney-client privilege |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | informer's privilege |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | journalist's privilege |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | marital communications privilege |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | physician-patient privilege |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | priest-penitent privilege |