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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | celebratory day; time off |
| Synonyms: | anniversary, break, celebration, day of rest, feast, festival, festivity, fete, few days off, fiesta, gala, gone fishing, holy day, jubilee, layoff, leave, liberty, long weekend, recess, red-letter day, saint's day, vacation |
| Main Entry: | impunity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom |
| Synonyms: | dispensation, exception, exemption, immunity, liberty, license, nonliability, permission, privilege, security |
| Notes: | impunity is protection from punishment, just as immunity is protection from disease |
| Antonyms: | imprisonment, incarceration |
| Main Entry: | latitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom, room to move; scope |
| Synonyms: | breadth, compass, elbow room, extent, independence, indulgence, laxity, leeway, liberty, license, margin, play, range, reach, room, run, run of, space, span, spread, sweep, swing, unrestrictedness, width |
| Antonyms: | limitation, restriction |
| Main Entry: | leave |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | permission |
| Synonyms: | allowance, assent, authorization, concession, consent, dispensation, freedom, go-ahead, green light, liberty, okay, permit, sanction, sufferance, tolerance |
| Notes: | let means to make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen, to allow; leave means to go away from a place |
| Antonyms: | limitation, prohibition, restriction |
| Main Entry: | leave |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | holiday, time off |
| Synonyms: | adieu, departure, farewell, furlough, goodbye, leave of absence, leave-taking, liberty, parting, retirement, sabbatical, vacation, withdrawal |
| Notes: | let means to make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen, to allow; leave means to go away from a place |
| Antonyms: | workday |
| Main Entry: | leisure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | free time and its activities |
| Synonyms: | chance, convenience, ease, freedom, holiday, idle hours, intermission, leave of absence, liberty, one's own sweet time, opportunity, pause, quiet, range, recess, recreation, relaxation, repose, requiescence, respite, rest, retirement, sabbatical, scope, spare moments, spare time, time, time off, unemployment, vacant hour, vacation |
| Antonyms: | employment, work |
| Main Entry: | liberation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom |
| Synonyms: | abolition, deliverance, democracy, emancipation, freeing, liberty, release, salvation, setting free, sovereignty, unchaining, unshackling |
| Main Entry: | license |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | authority, permission |
| Synonyms: | authorization, carte blanche, certificate, charter, consent, dispensation, entitlement, exemption, freedom, go-ahead, grant, green light, immunity, independence, latitude, leave, liberty, okay*, permit, privilege, right, self-determination, ticket, unconstraint, warrant |
| Antonyms: | ban, prohibition, refusal, withholding |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | opportunity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lucky chance; favorable circumstances |
| Synonyms: | befalling, break*, connection, contingency, convenience, cut*, event, excuse, fair shake, fighting chance, fitness, fling*, fortuity, freedom, go*, good fortune, good luck, happening, hope, hour, iron in the fire, juncture, leisure, liberty, moment, occasion, one's move, one's say, one's turn, opening, pass, prayer*, probability, relief, room, run, scope, shot*, show, space, spell, squeak, stab, the hunt, the running, time, turn, whack |
| Antonyms: | bad luck, misfortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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