Wiktionary
n. (label en legal) The doctrine, widely recognized in international law, that, outside of narrow territorial limits, the oceans are open to unhindered navigation by vessels of all countries.
WordNet
n. the right of merchant ships to travel freely in international waters
Wikipedia
Freedom of the Seas may refer to:
- Freedom of the seas, a legal concept
- Mare Liberum (The Free Sea or The Freedom of the Sea), a book in Latin on international law written by Hugo Grotius
- Freedom of the Seas, a play by Walter C. Hackett
- Freedom of the Seas (film), a 1934 adaptation of the play
- MS Freedom of the Seas, a cruise ship
Freedom of the Seas is a 1934 British war film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Clifford Mollison, Wendy Barrie and Zelma O'Neal. It was adapted by Roger Burford from the English play of the same name by Walter C. Hackett. It is also notable as David Lean's first film credit, as focus puller. It was French director Varnel's first film in Britain following a spell in Hollywood.
Usage examples of "freedom of the seas".
Then the trucks carried and dragged the bodies across the island to a cliff where, one by one, they were rolled over the steep slopes - - - and returned to the freedom of the seas.
Each month brought a new story, undramatic to the newspaper reader but ominous to our staff, of bolder and bolder moves by Roosevelt to deny us freedom of the seas.
He had lost the freedom of space, but he had won the freedom of the seas.