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free
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English
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Etymology
Middle English fre, from Old English frēo.
Pronunciation
- IPA: /fɹiː/, SAMPA: /fri:/
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- Rhymes: -iː
A sign advertising
free beer (obtainable without payment).
A "buy one get one
free" sign at a flower stand (obtainable without additional payment).
This food product is labelled "fat
free", meaning it contains no fat.
Adjective
free (comparative freer, superlative freest)
- Not imprisoned or enslaved.
- a free man
- Obtainable without any payment.
- The government provides free health care.
- (by extension, chiefly advertising slang) Obtainable without additional payment, as a bonus given when paying for something else.
- Buy a TV to get a free DVD player!
- Unconstrained.
- He was given free rein to do whatever he wanted
- (mathematics) Unconstrained by relators.
- The free group on three generators
- (mathematics, logic) Unconstrained by quantifiers.
- z is the free variable in "".
- Unobstructed, without blockages.
- The drain was free.
- Not in use
- Go sit on this chair, it's free.
- Without obligations.
- free time
- (software) With very few limitations on distribution or improvement.
- OpenOffice is free software.
- Without; not containing (what is specified).
- We had a wholesome, filling meal, free of meat
- (programming) Of identifiers, not bound.
- (botany, mycology) Not attached; loose.
- In this group of mushrooms, the gills are free.
- 1992, Rudolf M. Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, page 7
- Furthermore, the free anterior margin of the lobule is arched toward the lobe and is often involute […]
- (of a morpheme) That can be used by itself, unattached to another morpheme.
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free
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Adverb
free (comparative more free, superlative most free)
- Without needing to pay.
- I got this bike free.
Synonyms
Translations
without needing to pay
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- Polish: za darmo (pl), bezpłatnie (pl)
- Portuguese: grátis (pt), de graça (pt)
- Russian: бесплатно (ru) (b'esplátno), даром (ru) (dárom)
- Scottish Gaelic: an asgaidh (gd)
- Spanish: gratis (es)
- Swedish: gratis (sv)
- Telugu: చెల్లించనవసరం లేని (te) (cellincanavasaram leni)
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A painting depicting mythical Greek hero Perseus
freeing Andromeda, who was imprisoned by a sea monster.
Verb
free (third-person singular simple present frees, present participle freeing, simple past and past participle freed)
- (transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release; rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or oppresses.
Translations
make free
- Afrikaans: bevry (af), loslaat (af), laat gaan (af)
- Albanian: liroj (sq)
- Arabic: حرر (ar) (Harrara)
- Catalan: alliberar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 解放 (zh) (jiěfàng)
- Czech: osvobodit (cs) pf.
- Danish: befri (da), fritage (da), løslade (da)
- Dutch: bevrijden (nl), loslaten (nl), laten gaan (nl)
- Esperanto: liberi (eo), liberigi (eo)
- Estonian: vabastama (et), vabaks laskma (et)
- Finnish: vapauttaa (fi), päästää (fi) vapaaksi
- French: libérer (fr), dégager (fr), affranchir (fr)
- German: befreien (de) freisetzen (de) (free someone from prison)
- Greek: ελευθερώνω (el) (eleftheróno)
- Hebrew: שחרר (he) (shikhrér)
- Interlingua: liberar (ia)
- Irish: saoraigh (ga)
- Italian: liberare (it)
- Japanese: 解放する (ja) (かいほうする, kaihō-suru)
- Korean: 해방하다 (ko) (haebang-hada) (解放 (ko) + 하다 (ko))
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- Kurdish: ڕزگار کردن (ku)
- Latin: liberare (la)
- Lithuanian: išlaisvinti (lt)
- Norwegian: frigjøre (no), frigi (no), befri (no), løslate (no)
- Occitan: desliurar (oc)
- Old English: frēoġan (ang)
- Persian: آزاد ساختن (fa) (âzâd sâxtan), آزاد کردن (fa) (âzâd kardan)
- Polish: uwalniać (pl) impf., uwolnić (pl) pf.
- Portuguese: libertar (pt), livrar (pt), soltar (pt)
- Romanian: elibera (ro)
- Russian: освобождать (ru) (osvoboždát') impf., освободить (ru) (osvobodít') pf.
- Serbian: osloboditi (sr) pf.
- Slovak: oslobodiť (sk) pf.
- Slovene: osvoboditi (sl) pf.
- Spanish: librar (es)
- Swedish: frigöra (sv), befria (sv), frita (sv)(ga)
- Telugu: విడుదల చేయు (te) (vidudala ceyu)
- Turkish: serbest bırakmak (tr)
- Vietnamese: giải phóng (vi) (解放 (vi))
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Noun
free (plural frees)
- (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) Abbreviation of free kick.
- 2006, [1]:
- Whether deserved or not, the free gave Cresswell the chance to cover himself in glory with a shot on goal after the siren.
- free transfer
- 2011 September 21, Sam Lyon, “Man City 2 - 0 Birmingham”, BBC Sport:
- Hargreaves, who left Manchester United on a free during the summer, drilled a 22-yard beauty to open the scoring.
- (hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.
Translations
abbreviation of free kick
- Finnish: vapari (fi)
- German: Freistoss (de)
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hurling
Usage notes
- Rank among most common English words: #351 (Gutenburg)
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