Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun civil_right

1 sense of civil right

Sense 1
civil right -- (right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality)
       => human right -- ((law) any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law))