1. (noun)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"
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. (adj)free, loose, liberal not literal "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem"
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"
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 removeobstruction 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"