The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Freedom \Free"dom\ (fr[=e]"d[u^]m), n. [AS. fre['o]d[=o]m;
   fre['o]free + -dom. See Free, and -dom.]
   1. The state of being free; exemption from the power and
      control of another; liberty; independence.
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            Made captive, yet deserving freedom more. --Milton.
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   2. Privileges; franchises; immunities.
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            Your charter and your caty's freedom. --Shak.
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   3. Exemption from necessity, in choise and action; as, the
      freedom of the will.
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   4. Ease; facility; as, he speaks or acts with freedom.
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   5. Frankness; openness; unreservedness.
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            I emboldened spake and freedom used.  --Milton.
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   6. Improper familiarity; violation of the rules of decorum;
      license.
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   7. Generosity; liberality. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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   Freedom fine, a sum paid on entry to incorporations of
      trades.

   Freedom of the city, the possession of the rights and
      privileges of a freeman of the city; formerly often, and
      now occasionally, conferred on one not a resident, as a
      mark of honorary distinction for public services.

   Syn: See Liberty.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

freedom
    n 1: the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or
         think without externally imposed restraints
    2: immunity from an obligation or duty [syn: exemption,
       freedom]

The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

FREEDOM, n.  Exemption from the stress of authority in a beggarly half
dozen of restraint's infinite multitude of methods.  A political
condition that every nation supposes itself to enjoy in virtual
monopoly.  Liberty.  The distinction between freedom and liberty is
not accurately known; naturalists have never been able to find a
living specimen of either.

    Freedom, as every schoolboy knows,
        Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell;
    On every wind, indeed, that blows
            I hear her yell.

    She screams whenever monarchs meet,
        And parliaments as well,
    To bind the chains about her feet
            And toll her knell.

    And when the sovereign people cast
        The votes they cannot spell,
    Upon the pestilential blast
            Her clamors swell.

    For all to whom the power's given
        To sway or to compel,
    Among themselves apportion Heaven
            And give her Hell.
                                                          Blary O'Gary