[
US
/ˈfɹi/
]
[ UK /fɹˈiː/ ]
[ UK /fɹˈiː/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
not held in servitude
after the Civil War he was a free man -
not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint
a free choice
free will
feel free to stay as long as you wish
free of racism
I have an hour free
a free country
free enterprise
a free port -
costing nothing
complimentary tickets
free admission -
not fixed in position
the detached shutter fell on him
he pulled his arm free and ran -
not literal
a loose interpretation of what she had been told
a free translation of the poem -
completely wanting or lacking
the sentence was devoid of meaning
writing barren of insight
innocent of literary merit
young recruits destitute of experience -
not taken up by scheduled activities
spare time on my hands
a free hour between classes -
not occupied or in use
a free locker
a free lane -
unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion
a free electron
free expansion
free oxygen
VERB
-
grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
She exempted me from the exam - grant freedom to; free from confinement
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make (information) available for publication
release the list with the names of the prisoners -
remove or force out from a position
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 -
make (assets) available
release the holdings in the dictator's bank account -
let off the hook
I absolve you from this responsibility - release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
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relieve from
Rid the house of pests -
part with a possession or right
resign a claim to the throne
I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest - free from obligations or duties
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free or remove obstruction from
free a path across the cluttered floor
ADVERB
-
without restraint
cows in India are running loose
NOUN
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people who are free
the home of the free and the brave
the home of the free and the brave
How To Use free In A Sentence
- There were 42 free-kicks, two penalties, four bookings and three players sent off, two of whom had to be escorted from the pitch by police.
- The old ceiling and bar brought back many memories of happy carefree days of yore to those present.
- I'd live the transient and ephemeral existence of a backpacker for a week, an existence of freedom and simple pleasures.
- Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom. Oprah Winfrey
- My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- We're going to work freehand as well as with a few stencils - we might try the idea in the book of using chalk dust, or we may just use the chalks as-is.
- A lot of people already have two alcohol-free days a week but still drink more than is safe. The Sun
- Such a level of monitoring is not only impracticable; it is incompatible with intellectual freedom.
- Chile's top constitutional court blocked a government bid to promote the free distribution of the morning-after pill to minors aged 14 and over, dealing a new setback to President Michelle Bachelet.
- Though serfs were freed in 1864, they remained poor sharecroppers and staged a massive peasant uprising in 1907.
