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Noun: freedom of speech
  1. (law) a civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution, the right to communicate one's opinions and ideas to anyone who is willing to receive them
     
  2. The right to express an opinion in public without being restrained or censored
    - free speech

Derived forms: freedoms of speech

Type of: civil right

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