privilege meaning
EN
[ˈpɹɪv(ᵻ)lɪdʒ] [ˈpɹɪvlɪdʒ] [ˈpɹɪvəlɪdʒ] [ˈpɹɪvəlɛdʒ] [ˈpɹɪv(ə)lədʒ] 
US WPrivilege
- Privilege may refer to:
- Privilege (legal ethics), a permission granted by law or other rules.
- Privilege (evidence), rules excluding certain confidential communication from being admissible as evidence in court
- Privilege (social inequality), a term in sociology describing any special status granted to one group and usually portrayed as default
- Privilege (canon law)
- Privilege (Ivor Cutler album)
- Privilege (Television Personalities album)
- Privilege (film), a 1967 film directed by Peter Watkins
- "Privilege (Set Me Free)", a 1978 song covered by the Patti Smith Group that is featured in the above film
FR privilège 
- NounPLprivileges
- (ecclesiastical law, now chiefly historical) An exemption from certain laws granted by the Pope.
- (countable) A particular benefit, advantage, or favor; a right or immunity enjoyed by some but not others; a prerogative, preferential treatment.
- All first-year professors here must teach four courses a term, yet you're only teaching one! What entitled you to such a privilege?
- An especially rare or fortunate opportunity; the good fortune (to do something).
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (uncountable) The fact of being privileged; the status or existence of (now especially social or economic) benefit or advantage within a given society.
- A right or immunity enjoyed by a legislative body or its members.
- (countable, US, finance, now rare) A stock market option.
- (law) A common law doctrine that protects certain communications from being used as evidence in court.
- Your honor, my client is not required to answer that; her response is protected by attorney-client privilege.
- (computing) An ability to perform an action on the system that can be selectively granted or denied to users; permission.
- (ecclesiastical law, now chiefly historical) An exemption from certain laws granted by the Pope.
- VerbSGprivilegesPRprivilegingPT, PPprivileged
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Unfortunately, certain capitalists have arrogated to themselves monopolies and privileges which are quite sufficient to account for this [commotion of the populace against capitalists].
- Can we conceive a body of men, engifted with a mightier privilege than that of being salvation to hundreds of thousands of crushed and trampled human beings?
- The program tried to write to privileged memory, so it was flagged with a protect violate error.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of privilege in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
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- Singularia tantum
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "privilege" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb.