Navy/Getty Images. In this handout photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Rick West and Secretary of the Navy the Honorable Ray Mabus congratulate Honorary Chief Hospital Corpsman Bill Cosby during his pinning ceremony at the U.S. Navy Memorial on Feb. 17, 2011 in Washington, DC. 1  0 Shares.
Privilege (social inequality) Privilege is a social theory that special rights or advantages are available only to a particular person or group of people. The term is commonly used in the context of social inequality, particularly in regard to age, disability, ethnic or racial category, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and/or social class.
Meaning: A right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) Classified under: Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects. Synonyms: exclusive right; prerogative; perquisite; privilege. Context example: suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males. Hypernyms (privilege is a kind of...): right (an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of privilege): easement ((law) the privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land))