1.  The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence. [1913 Webster]
"Made captive, yet deserving freedom more." [1913 Webster]

2.  Privileges; franchises; immunities. [1913 Webster]
"Your charter and your caty's freedom." [1913 Webster]

3.  Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the freedom of the will. [1913 Webster]

4.  Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom. [1913 Webster]

5.  Frankness; openness; unreservedness. [1913 Webster]
"I emboldened spake and freedom used." [1913 Webster]

6.  Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum; license. [1913 Webster]

7.  Generosity; liberality. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

freedom, n.
1 the condition of being free or unrestricted.
2 personal or civic liberty; absence of slave status.
3 the power of self-determination; independence of fate or necessity.
4 the state of being free to act (often foll. by to + infin. : we have the freedom to leave).
5 frankness, outspokenness; undue familiarity.
6 (foll. by from) the condition of being exempt from or not subject to (a defect, burden, etc.).
7 (foll. by of) a full or honorary participation in (membership, privileges, etc.). b unrestricted use of (facilities etc.).
8 a privilege possessed by a city or corporation.
9 facility or ease in action.
10 boldness of conception.

Idiom:
the four freedoms freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from fear and want. freedom fighter a person who takes part in violent resistance to an established political system etc.

Etymology:
OE freodom (as FREE, -DOM)

N  will, volition, conation, velleity, liberum arbitrium, will and pleasure, free will, freedom, discretion, option, voluntariness, spontaneity, spontaneousness, originality, pleasure, wish, mind, desire, frame of mind, intention, predetermination, selfcontrol, determination, force of will, voluntary, volitional, willful, free, optional, discretional, discretionary, volitient, volitive, minded, prepense, intended, autocratic, unbidden &c (bid), spontaneous, original, unconstrained, voluntarily, at will, at pleasure, a volonte, a discretion, al piacere, ad libitum, ad arbitrium, as one thinks proper, as it seems good to, a beneplacito, of one's won accord, of one's own free will, proprio motu, suo motu, ex meromotu, out of one's won head, by choice, purposely, deliberately, stet pro ratione voluntas, sic volo sic jubeo, a vostro beneplacito, beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere, Deus vult, was man nicht kann meiden muss man willig leiden.

N  incoherence, nonadhesion, immiscibility, incoherence, looseness, laxity, relaxation, loosening, freedom, disjunction, rope of sand, nonadhesive, immiscible, incoherent, detached, loose, baggy, slack, lax, relaxed, flapping, streaming, disheveled, segregated, like grains of sand unconsolidated &c, uncombined, noncohesive.

N  laxity, laxness, looseness, slackness, toleration, freedom, anarchy, interregnum, relaxation, loosening, remission, dead letter, brutum fulmen, misrule, license, licentiousness, insubordination, lynch law, nihilism, reign of violence, dethronement, deposition, usurpation, abdication, lax, loose, slack, remiss, weak, relaxed, licensed, reinless, unbridled, anarchical, unauthorized, adespotic.

N  freedom, liberty, independence, license, facility, scope, range, latitude, play, free play, full play, free scope, full scope, free stage and no favor, swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth, Liberty Hall, franchise, denization, free man, freed man, livery man, denizen, autonomy, self-government, liberalism, free trade, noninterference, Monroe Doctrine, immunity, exemption, emancipation, enfranchisement, affranchisement, free land, freehold, allodium, frankalmoigne, mortmain, bushwhacker, freelance, free thinker, free trader, independent, free, free as air, out of harness, independent, at large, loose, scot-free, left alone, left to oneself, in full swing, uncaught, unconstrained, unbuttoned, unconfined, unrestrained, unchecked, unprevented, unhindered, unobstructed, unbound, uncontrolled, untrammeled, unsubject, ungoverned, unenslaved, unenthralled, unchained, unshackled, unfettered, unreined, unbridled, uncurbed, unmuzzled, unrestricted, unlimited, unmitigated, unconditional, absolute, discretionary, unassailed, unforced, uncompelled, unbiassed, spontaneous, free and easy, at ease, at one's ease, degage, quite at home, wanton, rampant, irrepressible, unvanquished, exempt, freed, freeborn, autonomous, freehold, allodial, gratis, eleutherian, unclaimed, going a begging, freely, ad libitum, ubi libertas ibi patria, free white and twenty-one.

N  exemption, absence, exception, immunity, privilege, release, exempt from, devoid of, without, unpossessed of, unblest with, immune from, not having, unpossessed, untenanted, without an owner, unobtained, unacquired, exemption, freedom, irresponsibility, immunity, liberty, license, release, exoneration, excuse, dispensation, absolution, franchise, renunciation, discharge, exculpation, exempt, free, immune, at liberty, scot-free, released, unbound, unencumbered, irresponsible, unaccountable, not answerable, excusable, bonis nocet quisquis pepercerit malis.

academic freedom, basque homeland and freedom, degree of freedom, freedom fighter, freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, freedom from discrimination, freedom from double jeopardy, freedom from involuntary servitude, freedom from search and seizure, freedom from self-incrimination, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of the seas, freedom of thought, freedom party, freedom rider, freedom to bear arms