1. (adj) free, free people
people who are free
"the home of the free and the brave"
2. (adj) free
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"
3. (adj) free
unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion
"free expansion"; "free oxygen"; "a free electron"
4. (adj) complimentary, costless, free, gratis(p), gratuitous
costing nothing
"complimentary tickets"; "free admission"
5. (adj) free
not occupied or in use
"a free locker"; "a free lane"
6. (adj) detached, free
not fixed in position
"the detached shutter fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran"
7. (adj) free
not held in servitude
"after the Civil War he was a free man"
8. (adj) spare, free
not taken up by scheduled activities
"a free hour between classes"; "spare time on my hands"
9. (adj) barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent
completely wanting or lacking
"writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
10. (verb) free, loose, liberal
not literal
"a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem"
11. (verb) free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose
grant freedom to; free from confinement
12. (verb) rid, free, disembarrass
relieve from
"Rid the house of pests"
13. (verb) dislodge, free
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"
14. (verb) exempt, relieve, free
grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
"She exempted me from the exam"
15. (verb) free, release
make (information) available for publication
"release the list with the names of the prisoners"
16. (verb) free, discharge
free from obligations or duties
17. (verb) free, disengage
free or remove obstruction from
"free a path across the cluttered floor"
18. (verb) absolve, justify, free
let off the hook
"I absolve you from this responsibility"
19. (verb) release, relinquish, resign, free, give up
part with a possession or right
"I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne"
20. (verb) release, free, liberate
release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
21. (adverb) unblock, unfreeze, free, release
make (assets) available
"release the holdings in the dictator's bank account"
22. (adverb) loose, free
without restraint
"cows in India are running loose"
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Definition of 'free' 
