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civil liberty

civil liberty is the singular of civil liberties.

Meaning of civil liberties

Noun

civil liberties pl (normally plural, singular civil liberty)

  1. (plural, plural-normally) Civil rights and freedoms such as the freedom from enslavement, freedom from torture, and right to a fair trial.
    • Observations on the nature of civil liberty, the principles of government, and the justice and policy of the war with America [book title].1776, Richard Price, Observations on the Nature of Civil Liberty, the Principles of Government, and the Justice and Policy of the War with America, London: Printed for T[homas] Cadell, →OCLC

Forms of civil liberty

pluralcivil liberties

Questions about civil liberty

What is civil liberty the singular of?
Civil liberty is the singular of civil liberties.

Words near civil liberty in the dictionary

  1. civil law notaries
  2. civil law notary
  3. civil laws
  4. civil libertarian
  5. civil liberties
  6. civil liberty
  7. civil list
  8. civil lists
  9. civil marriage
  10. civil marriages
  11. civil parish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: civil liberty (page history and authors); civil liberties (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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