civil right

1. 1.

   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

   Broaderhuman right

   Narrowercivil libertyhabeas corpusfreedom of religionfreedom of speechfreedom of the pressfreedom of assemblyfreedom to bear armsfreedom from search and seizureright to due processfreedom from self-incrimination

   law

Questions about civil right

What does civil right mean?

civil right means "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".

Is civil right a common word?

civil right is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.