the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination: His career reached its climax when he was elected president. 2. (in a dramatic or literary work) a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot. 3. Rhetoric. a figure consisting of a series of related ideas so arranged that each surpasses the preceding in force or intensity.
Definition of freedom of speech. : the legal right to express one's opinions freely.
The freedom of speech is not absolute; the Supreme Court of the United States has recognized several categories of speech that are excluded from the freedom, and it has recognized that governments may enact reasonable time, place, or manner restrictions on speech.