What does Free Mean?

Definitions

Definition as Noun
  • people who are free
Definition as Verb
  • let off the hook
  • free from obligations or duties
  • free or remove obstruction from
  • remove or force out from a position
  • grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
  • grant freedom to; free from confinement
  • make (information) available for publication
  • part with a possession or right
  • release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
  • relieve from
  • make (assets) available
Definition as Adjective
  • not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint
  • unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion
  • not occupied or in use
  • not held in servitude
  • completely wanting or lacking
  • costing nothing
  • not fixed in position
  • not literal
  • not taken up by scheduled activities
Definition as Adverb
  • without restraint

Examples

  • "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free choice"
  • "free expansion"; "free oxygen"; "a free electron"
  • "a free locker"; "a free lane"
  • "after the Civil War he was a free man"
  • "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
  • "complimentary tickets"; "free admission"
  • "the detached shutter fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran"
  • "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem"
  • "a free hour between classes"; "spare time on my hands"
  • "cows in India are running loose"
  • "the home of the free and the brave"
  • "I absolve you from this responsibility"
  • "free a path across the cluttered floor"
  • "The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"; "He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble"
  • "She exempted me from the exam"
  • "release the list with the names of the prisoners"
  • "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne"
  • "Rid the house of pests"
  • "release the holdings in the dictator's bank account"

Part of Speech

Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb