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privilege `noun` [ ˈprɪvɪlɪdʒ ]

• a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group.

• "education is a right, not a privilege"

Similar: advantage, right, benefit, prerogative, entitlement, birthright, due, concession, freedom, liberty,

privilege `verb`

• grant a privilege or privileges to.

• "English inheritance law privileged the eldest son"

Origin: Middle English: via Old French from Latin privilegium ‘bill or law affecting an individual’, from privus ‘private’ + lex, leg- ‘law’.

check your privilege

• used to suggest that someone should recognize that their attitudes or views reflect the fact that they are in an inherently privileged or advantageous position because of the particular social category or categories to which they belong.
"read a book or two about racism and get out of the suburbs and check your privilege"

privilege noun [ ˈprɪvɪlɪdʒ ]

privilege verb

check your privilege

privilege `noun` [ ˈprɪvɪlɪdʒ ]

privilege `verb`