RIGHT TO THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does right to the pursuit of happiness mean? 

• RIGHT TO THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS (noun)
  The noun RIGHT TO THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS has 1 sense:

1. the right to try to find happiness

  Familiarity information: RIGHT TO THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RIGHT TO THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The right to try to find happiness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("right to the pursuit of happiness" is a kind of...):

human right ((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))