What is "freedom"

Freedom \Free"dom\ (fr[=e]"d[u^]m), n. [AS. fre['o]d[=o]m; fre['o]free + -dom. See Free, and -dom.]

1. The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence.

   Made captive, yet deserving freedom more.
   --Milton.

2. Privileges; franchises; immunities.

   Your charter and your caty's freedom.
   --Shak.

3. Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will.

4. Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom.

5. Frankness; openness; unreservedness.

   I emboldened spake and freedom used.
   --Milton.

6. Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license.

7. Generosity; liberality. [Obs.]
   --Chaucer.

   Freedom fine, a sum paid on entry to incorporations of trades.

   Freedom of the city, the possession of the rights and privileges of a freeman of the city; formerly often, and now occasionally, conferred on one not a resident, as a mark of honorary distinction for public services.

   Syn: See Liberty.

Old English freodom "power of self-determination, state of free will; emancipation from slavery, deliverance;" see free (adj.) + -dom. Meaning "exemption from arbitrary or despotic control, civil liberty" is from late 14c. Meaning "possession of particular privileges" is from 1570s. Similar formation in Old Frisian fridom, Dutch vrijdom, Middle Low German vridom. Freedom-rider recorded 1961 in reference to civil rights activists in U.S. trying to integrate bus lines.\n\nIt has been said by some physicians, that life is a forced state. The same may be said of freedom. It requires efforts, it presupposes mental and moral qualities of a high order to be generally diffused in the society where it exists.

[John C. Calhoun, speech, U.S. House of Representatives, Jan. 31, 1816]

n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state of being free, of not being imprisoned or enslaved. 2 (context countable English) The lack of a specific constraint, or of constraints in general; a state of being free, unconstrained.

1. n. the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints

2. immunity from an obligation or duty [syn: exemption]

Freedom is a London-based anarchist newspaper published monthly by Freedom Press.

The paper was started in 1886 by volunteers including Peter Kropotkin and Charlotte Wilson and continues to 2014 as an unpaid project. Originally, the subtitle was "A Journal of Anarchist Socialism." The title was changed to "A Journal of Anarchist Communism" in June 1889. Today it is unlabelled.

The newspaper's mission statement is stated in every issue and summarises the writers' view of anarchism:

Freedom is an album by Yothu Yindi released in 1993 under the Mushroom Records label.

Freedom is the eighteenth studio album by Canadian rock musician Neil Young, released on October 2, 1989. Freedom effectively relaunched Young's career after a largely unsuccessful decade. After many arguments (and a lawsuit), Young left Geffen Records in 1988 and returned to his original label, Reprise, with This Note's for You. Freedom, however, brought about a new, critical and commercially successful album. This album was released in the United States as an LP record and a CD in 1989.

Freedom (often referred to as the Freedom app) is a computer program designed to keep a computer user away from the Internet for up to eight hours at a time. It is described as a way to "free you from distractions, allowing you time to write, analyze, code, or create." The program was written by Fred Stutzman, a Ph.D student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Freedom, or liberty, is the power or right to do as one wants.

Freedom may also refer to:

"Freedom" is a song by British pop duo Wham! in 1984, becoming the group's second No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart. It was written and produced by George Michael, one half of the duo.

Freedom (12 meter US-30) is a 12-metre class racing yacht and winner of the 1980 America's Cup, defeating the challenging yacht Australia. Freedom was designed with an alloy rather than a wood hull by Olin Stephens and Bill Langan, and constructed at Minneford Yacht Yard. She was skippered in the Cup by Dennis Conner.

Today Freedom is available for charter out of Newport, Rhode Island from America's Cup Charters, along with fellow America's Cup winners Intrepid and Weatherly.

Freedom (Azadlıq) was an electoral alliance of the Musavat (Müsavat Partiyası), the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (Azərbaycan Xalq Cəbhəsi Partiyası) and the Azerbaijan Democratic Party (Azərbaycan Demokrat Partiyası).

It won at the last elections, 6 November 2005, only 7 out of 125 seats.

Category:Political parties in Azerbaijan Category:Political party alliances in Azerbaijan

Freedom is the fourteenth studio album by Santana.

By this recording, Santana had nine members, some of which had returned after being with the band in previous versions. Freedom moved away from the more poppy sound of the previous album, Beyond Appearances and back to the band's original Latin rock. It failed, however, to revive Santana's commercial fortunes, reaching only ninety-five on the album chart.

Freedom is a magazine published by the Church of Scientology since 1968. The magazine describes its focus as " Investigative Reporting in the Public Interest." A frequent topic is psychiatry, which Scientology strongly opposes.

"Freedom" is a song by British synthpop duo Erasure. It was the first single released from Erasure's ninth studio album Loveboat. The track was written by Vince Clarke and Andy Bell. "Freedom" (as well as the entire Loveboat album) was produced by Flood, and this is the first Flood-produced Erasure single since " The Circus" in 1987.

Mute Records released "Freedom" in the UK and the single was never released in the United States due to problems with Erasure's then-record company Maverick (the Loveboat album would not see a U.S. release until 2003). The song peaked at number twenty-seven on the UK singles chart and at number eighty in Germany. In Sweden it charted for one week peaking at #51.

"Freedom" is a song by American rap metal band Rage Against the Machine, released as the fourth and final single from their self-titled album in 1994.

"Freedom" was used in an episode of the MTV series Daria, entitled Quinn The Brain in 1998.

"Freedom" is a 1995 song released on Mercury Records featuring a chorus of over 60 African-American female artists and groups of note in hip-hop, pop and R&B music including Aaliyah, Vanessa L. Williams, Mary J. Blige, MC Lyte, Coko, En Vogue, SWV, TLC, and Monica. It is a cover of Joi's song of the same name from her 1994 album The Pendulum Vibe. Both versions were produced by Dallas Austin.

"Freedom" is a 1970 funk song released by The Isley Brothers on their T-Neck imprint. Written and produced by the Isleys, the song explained the meaning of freedom in many ways including "(going) where you wanna go/love who you wanna love/work where you wanna work/flirt when you wanna flirt" and so on. The song was issued on their 1970 album, Get Into Something, and was one of six R&B charted hits the group scored on the album peaking at number eleven while it also made an appearance on the pop chart peaking at number seventy-two.

Freedom is Michael W. Smith's fifteenth album. It was released in 2000 on Reunion Records, and is his first full-length album consisting of only instrumentals. A promotional live EP, The Acoustic Set - A Live Recording, was available as a pre-order bonus.

Freedom is the third Christian worship music album by Darrell Evans, released by Vertical Music in 1998. This album also features Lincoln Brewster who played lead guitar and aided in songwriting. "So Good to Me" is on the Digital Praise PC game Guitar Praise.

Freedom is a 2000 American science fiction television show on the UPN network. There were 12 episodes filmed (actually 13, as the pilot eventually broadcast had been reshot with somewhat different casting) but only 7 were aired in the US. Some episodes were further aired internationally, and the full series is still occasionally broadcast in Brazil.

"Freedom" is a Jimi Hendrix song released in 1971 from the album The Cry of Love. The album was released posthumously in 1971 and became a major hit. This was the only single released from the album and was somewhat successful on the charts, reaching number 59 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. It is now one of the more popular songs in the Hendrix collection, and is a staple in many compilation works. It was later featured on the 1997 album First Rays of the New Rising Sun.

Freedom is the second studio album by country music singer Andy Griggs. Released in 2002 on RCA Records Nashville, it features the singles "How Cool Is That", "Tonight I Wanna Be Your Man", and "Practice Life", a duet with Martina McBride; respectively, these reached No. 22, No. 7, and No. 33 on the Hot Country Songs chart in 2002.

Freedom is the 13th studio album by singer-songwriter Sheena Easton released only in Japan and charting at #53. This album of new material consists of smooth, catchy dance-pop songs. Easton had producing credits on the project and writing credits on songs "One Man" and "Love Will Make You Wise". The album includes the singles "Modern Girl '97," "Love Me with Freedom," and "When You Speak My Name."

On May 28, 1997 Easton released Freedom on her own label (SkyJay Trax) at the same time she officially opened her website.

In February 2007 Fuel Records (Varèse Sarabande) re-released Freedom with a slip cover and different artwork in (Limited Edition) officially in the United States.

"Freedom" is a song written and recorded by Paul McCartney in response to the September 11 attacks in 2001. McCartney was in New York City at the time of the attacks and witnessed the event while sitting in a plane parked on the tarmac at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport.

"Freedom" is a song by Solange included on the soundtrack of the 2004 comedy film Johnson Family Vacation.

Freedom is the third studio album by hip hop and R&B Senegalese-American singer and record producer Akon. The album was originally named Acquitted; however, Akon changed it before it was released. It was released as a download on December 1, 2008, and in stores December 2, 2008. The album debuted at number 7 on the Billboard 200 with 110,600 copies sold in its first week.

"Freedom" is a 1987 single by rock singer Alice Cooper, taken from his seventeenth solo studio album, Raise Your Fist and Yell. It was written by Alice Cooper and Kane Roberts.

The song was the only single released from Raise Your Fist and Yell. It did not chart in the US when released in late 1987; however, it reached #50 on the UK charts in early 1988. The single's B-side in both countries was the album track "Time to Kill".

It was Cooper's last single to be released by MCA Inc. until 1992 when Geffen Records (bought by MCA in 1990) released the Guns N' Roses song " The Garden" from Use Your Illusion I as a single, Cooper being a guest on that track.

Freedom is a 2010 novel by American author Jonathan Franzen. It was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Freedom received general acclaim from book critics, and was ranked one of the best books of 2010 by several publications.

Freedom was a psychedelic rock band active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, formed initially by members of Procol Harum.

Ray Royer and Bobby Harrison, who had performed on the hit Procol Harum single " A Whiter Shade of Pale", were kicked out of the Harum by vocalist Gary Brooker, and replaced by Robin Trower and Barry Wilson. Royer and Harrison then formed Freedom with Steve Shirley and Tony Marsh, who was immediately replaced by pianist / organist Mike Lease, releasing two German singles and the soundtrack for the Tinto Brass/ Dino de Laurentiis film Attraction (original title Nerosubianco, also known as Black on White).

In 1968, Harrison entirely overhauled the group's membership, and the new line up began recording with more of a hard rock sound, scoring tour dates with Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, and The James Gang. They achieved great renown for their excellent version of the Beatles song " Cry Baby Cry" on their second album Freedom at Last. Further lineup changes occurred before the band finally splintered in 1972, with Harrison going on to Snafu.

Freedom is a 2001 Argentine drama film directed by Lisandro Alonso. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Freedom is the sixth album by the Christian rock band White Heart and the last of the band's albums with Sparrow Records. Produced by Brown Bannister, it was also the last album for Tommy Sims, Gordon Kennedy and Chris McHugh, although McHugh returned as a session musician for Tales of Wonder.

Freedom is eighth full-length studio album by Dragon Ash. It was released on March 4, 2009.

"Freedom" is the eighth single by the band Girl Next Door and released by Avex Trax on June 16, 2010. "Freedom" is the theme song of the Japanese drama Jotei Kaoruko.

"Freedom" is Europop duo London Boys' last charting single in the UK of 1990 from the album Sweet Soul Music. The single was written and produced by Ralf René Maué. In the UK, the single fared at #54, better than the previous single " Chapel of Love" which peaked at #75. In the UK, only a CD-single version was made available.

Freedom is an album by jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell. It was recorded in 1963-1964 but shelved until 1980, when it was released in Japan, as GXF 3057. In 2011, it was finally released in the US as a 180gr vinyl.

"Freedom" is a song by English girl group Sugababes. It was written by Jason Pebworth, Jon Shave, George Astasio, Kyle Abrahams, Peter Ighile, Mariah Young-Jones and Rowan Martin, and produced by The Invisible Men in collaboration with Parker & James. The song premiered in May 2011 during a music festival in Morocco, and was promoted with various snippets and teasers in addition to an advertisement for the Nokia N8. It is an electropop song with elements of dubstep. It is the final song the group released before their split in 2011.

"Freedom" was due for release as the lead single from their anticipated eighth studio album, although the song was cancelled as an official single and instead made a free digital download via Amazon. Despite the controversy surrounding its release, the song received positive reviews from critics, who complimented its sound and the use of dubstep. The music video, which was directed by Sean De Sparigo and filmed in July 2011, features the Sugababes in an underground club. The trio performed "Freedom" at the T4 on the Beach festivial on 10 July 2011.

Freedom is a historical novel by American essayist William Safire, set in the early years of the American Civil War. It concludes with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.

The novel shows how its main characters grapple with the dilemmas of political morality raised by secession and war. A particular focus is the challenge of reconciling individual rights and liberties with preserving the nation when its existence is threatened (a topic Safire would return to in his non-fiction writing, following the September 11 attacks). The novel shows how this process of wrestling with moral dilemmas in the political setting led, step by step, to the Emancipation Proclamation.

As compared with other historical novels, Freedom is unusual in the volume of detail provided about its sources by the author. In a lengthy appendix, or "underbook" as Safire refers to it, he goes through the novel chapter by chapter, and in some cases line by line, distinguishing fact from fiction, citing his source materials, and weighing the arguments on both sides of various historical controversies.

Freedom was a short lived subsidiary label of Liberty Records based in Hollywood, California.

Freedom is a 1982 film directed by Scott Hicks, starring Jon Blake and Jad Capelja.

The movie was shot in May to June 1981 in and around Adelaide. Finance was provided by the South Australian Film Corporation, which additional investment from Filmco.

Scott Hick later described making the film as:

A very mixed experience. On the one hand, it was heady and exciting and intoxicating to be making your first feature film but, on the other, there were difficulties in the way the production was organised. The writer, John Emery, and I were kept separate from each other. In retrospect this was a huge blunder because the film was never totally focused in its vision, and I think that's reflected a little in the sort of schizophrenic nature of the film.

"Freedom" is the 13th episode of the eighth season of the American police procedural drama NCIS, and the 175th episode overall. It originally aired on CBS in the United States on February 1, 2011. The episode is written by Nicole Mirante-Matthews and directed by Craig Ross, Jr., and was seen by 22.85 million viewers.

"Freedom" was the most watched episode of NCIS at the time, surpassing the record of 21.93 millions viewers reached earlier in 2011. It was later surpassed by the season ten episode "Shiva", which was watched by 22.86 million viewers.

"Freedom" is a song by Trinidadian recording artist Nicki Minaj, for the reissue of her second studio album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, subtitled The Re-Up (2012). It was written by Minaj, Matthew Burnett, and Matthew Samuels. Production was helmed by Samuels under his stage name Boi-1da. The song was released for digital download by Cash Money Records in the US and Canada on November 2, 2012 and in other countries on November 6, 2012. It was serviced to US urban radio on November 27 and to mainstream radio in the United Kingdom the following day. "Freedom" is a downtempo hip hop and R&B song that features a "sonically breezy" soundscape, complied with ambient riffs, pop-inspired synths, and soft pop choruses.

To promote the song, an accompanying music video for the song was released on November 15, 2012. It was shot mainly in black and white, and features Minaj in a variety of scenes such as a deserted area with a boat, dressed as a Queen on a throne, and is interspersed with scenes of nature. The song peaked at number 17 on the UK R&B Chart, number 23 on the US Rap Songs, and number 31 on the US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs. "Freedom" was promoted with several live performances, most notably the American Music Awards of 2012.

"Freedom" is a song by the Swiss-Italian musician Robert Miles. It was released on November 10, 1997 via Deconstruction label as the lead single from his second album 23am.

Freedom or Freedom Charity is a UK-based charity formed to give support to victims of forced marriage and violence upon women thought to have brought dishonour on the family. The organisation has also become involved in issues of domestic slavery. It was founded in 2009 by Aneeta Prem and the chair of trustees is Toby Harris.

"Freedom" is the eleventh episode of the second season of the psychological thriller television series The Following, which premiered on March 31, 2014, on Fox. The episode was written by Dewayne Jones and directed by Liz Friedlander.

Freedom is the second studio album by English singer-songwriter Rebecca Ferguson, and was released on 2 December 2013 in the United Kingdom, a day after the release of the album's lead single "I Hope". The album received positive reviews from critics, praising her vocals and movement away from her soul-influenced debut album, Heaven, into a more R&B, club-orientated sound. The album also attained moderate commercial success in the UK, where it became her second top ten album and achieved a silver certification from the BPI after just 3 weeks since its release date followed by a Gold certification on 27 December 2013. The album was released through a joint deal between Syco Music and RCA Records.

Its lead single " I Hope" was released on 1 December 2013 and peaked at number 15, her third Top 40 single. In mainland Europe, "Light On" was released as the second single from the album after a television performance of the track which entered it in the German Top 40 singles.

Freedom is an instrumental jazz album which was a collaboration between flautist Trey Eley and Producer Matthew Shell. It was released on August 30, 2012. The track from the album, Twilight, featuring Grammy nominated trumpet player Greg Adams was featured on Grammy.com as an Exclusive First listen. Another track "Beauty in Freedom", inspired Grammy nominated artist, Carolyn Malachi to write her song Beautiful Dreamer. The album was also featured as one of Generation bass' Top album of 2012. The video reinterpretation of the Michael Jackson track, "Rock with you" featuring Kenny Wesley was shot and edited by Jason Baustin, of Travestee Films. The music video for "Juice" features the dancer Atomic Goofball, who also performed in So You Think You Can Dance and the film Step Up 3.

Freedom is a 2004 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Thampi Kannanthanam, starring Jishnu and Nithya Das in the lead role.

Freedom is the 4th studio album by Swedish hardcore punk band Refused, released via Epitaph Records on June 29, 2015. It is the first album released by the band since 1998's The Shape of Punk to Come, as well as the first album to feature bassist Magnus Flagge as a full-time member since Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent (1996) and first to not feature guitarist Jon F. Brännström since This Just Might Be... the Truth (1994).

Freedom is a 2000 drama film directed by Šarūnas Bartas. It tells the story of two men and a woman who are stranded in the Moroccan desert after a failed smuggling trip. The film was a co-production between companies in Lithuania, France and Portugal. It premiered in competition at the 57th Venice International Film Festival.

"Freedom" (stylized as Freedom!) is a song by Pharrell Williams which was released for streaming on Apple Music and played by Zane Lowe on his show on Beats 1 on its launch date of 30 June 2015. Part of the song was made available as a teaser on Williams' Twitter page and was also used in a promotional video for Apple Music. Its music video was nominated for Best Music Video at 58th Grammy Awards.

Freedom is an American film directed by Peter Cousens, starring Cuba Gooding Jr., William Sadler and Sharon Leal''.

"Freedom" is a song by Australian rock-pop band Noiseworks. It was released in May 1990 as the first single from their third studio album Love Versus Money (1991) and peaked at number 30 on the ARIA singles chart in June 1990.

"Freedom" is a song recorded by American singer Beyoncé featuring American rapper Kendrick Lamar for her sixth studio album, Lemonade (2016). The song was written by Jonny Coffer, Beyoncé, Carla Marie Williams, Dean McIntosh and Kendrick Lamar; it contains samples of "Let Me Try", written by Frank Tirado, performed by Kaleidoscope; samples of "Collection Speech/Unidentified Lining Hymn", recorded by Alan Lomax in 1959, performed by Reverend R.C. Crenshaw; and samples of "Stewball", recorded by Alan Lomax and John Lomax, Sr. in 1947, performed by Prisoner "22" at Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Its production was handled by Beyoncé, Coffer and veteran hip hop record producer Just Blaze. Upon its release, "Freedom" managed to appear on various music charts based on digital downloads. It managed to peak at number 35 in the US, on the Billboard Hot 100 and 40 in the UK. The song's music video is part of a one-hour film with the same title as its parent album, originally aired on HBO. Beyoncé performed the song live as part of the set list of The Formation World Tour (2016) and at the BET Awards 2016.