The Collaborative International Dictionary
civil right \civil right\, civil rights \civil rights\ a legal 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.
WordNet
n. 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 [syn: civil rights]
Usage examples of "civil right".
Not de Burgh with his stifling cage of law and custom and civil right, not these old men walled up in their feudal honours, not my turbulent barons of the march, but I the head and my household officers the instrument, and a sound order under us.
Heather Mallick, The Reconstitution of Monica Lewinsky: Kenneth Starr Violated Every Civil Right She Ever Had.