Definition of right

• an abstract idea of that which is due to a person or governmental body by law or tradition or nature; "they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights"; "Certain rights can never be granted to the government but must be kept in the hands of the people"- Eleanor Roosevelt; "a right is not something that somebody gives you; it is something that nobody can take away"
• (frequently plural) the interest possessed by law or custom in some intangible thing; "mineral rights"; "film rights"
• location near or direction toward the right side; i.e. the side to the south when a person or object faces east; "he stood on the right"