HUMAN RIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does human right mean? 

• HUMAN RIGHT (noun)
  The noun HUMAN RIGHT has 1 sense:

1. (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)

  Familiarity information: HUMAN RIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUMAN RIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("human right" is a kind of...):

right (an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "human right"):

right to privacy (right to be free of unsanctioned intrusion)

right to life (the right to live)

right to liberty (the right to be free)

right to the pursuit of happiness (the right to try to find happiness)

freedom of thought (the right to hold unpopular ideas)

equality before the law (the right to equal protection of the laws)

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)

 Context examples 

There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)