Definition of FREE

free

Plural: frees

Noun

  • people who are free
    • "the home of the free and the brave"
  • Abbreviation of free kick.
  • A free transfer.
  • The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.
  • Abbreviation of freestyle.

Verb

Verb Forms: freed, freeing, frees

  • To make someone or something no longer restricted or confined.
  • grant freedom to; free from confinement
  • relieve from
  • remove or force out from a position
    • "He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble"
  • grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
  • make (information) available for publication
  • free from obligations or duties
  • free or remove obstruction from
    • "free a path across the cluttered floor"
  • let off the hook
  • part with a possession or right
  • release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
  • make (assets) available
  • To make free; set at liberty; release.
  • To rid of something that confines or oppresses.
  • To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system.

Adjective

  • Not subject to restriction, control, or external influence.
  • able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint
    • "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"
  • unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion
    • "free expansion"
    • "free oxygen"
    • "a free electron"
  • not held in servitude
    • "after the Civil War he was a free man"

Adjective Satellite

  • costing nothing
    • "free admission"
  • not occupied or in use
    • "a free locker"
    • "a free lane"
  • not fixed in position
    • "he pulled his arm free and ran"
  • not taken up by scheduled activities
    • "a free hour between classes"
  • completely wanting or lacking
  • not literal
    • "a free translation of the poem"

Adverb

  • without restraint

Adj

  • Unconstrained.
  • Unconstrained.
  • Not imprisoned or enslaved.
  • Unconstrained.
  • Generous; liberal.
  • Unconstrained.
  • Clear of offence or crime; guiltless; innocent.
  • Unconstrained.
  • Without obligations.
  • Unconstrained.
  • To be enjoyed by anyone freely.
  • Unconstrained.
  • Upholding individual rights.
  • Unconstrained.
  • With no or only freedom-preserving limitations on distribution or modification.
  • Unconstrained.
  • Intended for release, and omitting debugging diagnostics, as opposed to a checked version.
  • Obtainable without any payment.
  • Obtainable without any payment.
  • Complimentary.
  • Unconstrained.
  • In any of various technical senses generic, universal.
  • Such that any map f from X to the underlying set of an object A in the same category as F induces a map ̄f from F to A which is compatible with f (i.e. such that f=̄f∘i).
  • Unconstrained.
  • In any of various technical senses generic, universal.
  • Having a set of generators which satisfy no non-trivial relations; equivalently, being the group of reduced words on a set of generators.
  • Unconstrained.
  • In any of various technical senses generic, universal.
  • Having a linearly independent set of generators (called a basis).
  • Unconstrained.
  • Unconstrained by quantifiers.
  • Unconstrained.
  • Unconstrained of identifiers, not bound.
  • Unconstrained.
  • (of a morpheme) That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.
  • Unconstrained.
  • Unobstructed, without blockages.
  • Unconstrained.
  • Unattached or uncombined.
  • Unconstrained.
  • Not currently in use; not taken; unoccupied.
  • Unconstrained.
  • Not attached; loose.
  • Unconstrained.
  • Of a rocket or missile: not under the control of a guidance system after being launched.
  • Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
  • Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
  • Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of.
  • Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.
  • Privileged or individual; proprietary.

Adv

  • Without needing to pay.
  • Freely; willingly.

Examples

  • a free fishery;  a free warren
  • a free horse
  • a free man
  • a free radical
  • a free school
  • Buy a TV to get a free DVD player!
  • Free Blacks
  • free service;  free socage
  • free time
  • He was given free rein to do whatever he wanted.
  • He's very free with his money.
  • I got this bike free.
  • In this group of mushrooms, the gills are free.
  • It's free real estate.
  • OpenOffice is free software.
  • The clever placement of QUITE managed to free up the triple-word score for his next turn in Scrabble.
  • the drain was free
  • the Free World
  • The fundamental group of the figure eight is free of rank 2.
  • The government provides free health care.
  • The team won the 200 meters free relay.
  • This is a free country.
  • We had a wholesome, filling meal, free of meat.  I would like to live free from care in the mountains.
  • With an open board, the player felt free to place any seven-letter word.
  • You can sit on this chair; it's free.
  • z is the free variable in #92;forallx#92;existsy#58;xy#61;z.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English free, fre, freo, from Old English frēo (“free”), from Proto-West Germanic *frī, from Proto-Germanic *frijaz (“beloved, not in bondage”), from Proto-Indo-European *priHós (“pleased, loved”), from *preyH- (“to please, love”). Related to friend.
cognates, etc
Germanic cognates include West Frisian frij (“free”), Dutch vrij (“free”), Low German free (“free”), German frei (“free”), Danish, Swedish and Norwegian fri (“free”).
Other cognates include Sanskrit प्रिय (priyá-, “beloved”).
Germanic and Celtic are the only Indo-European language branches in which the PIE word with the meaning of "dear, beloved" acquired the additional meaning of "free" in the sense of "not in bondage". This was an extension of the idea of "characteristic of those who are dear and beloved", in other words friends and tribe members (in contrast to unfree inhabitants from other tribes and prisoners of war, many of which were among the slaves – compare the Latin use of liberi to mean both "free persons" and "children of a family").

Scrabble Score: 7

free: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
free: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
free: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

free: valid Words With Friends Word