Free

Definitions of "free"

• adjective
• Not imprisoned or confined. adjective
• Not controlled by obligation or the will of another. adjective
• adjective
• Not controlled by another country or political power; independent. adjective
• Governed by consent and possessing or granting civil liberties. adjective
• Not subject to arbitrary interference by a government. adjective
• Not enslaved. adjective
• adjective
• Not affected or restricted by a given condition or circumstance. adjective
• Not subject to a given condition; exempt. adjective
• adjective
• Not bound by convention or the rules of form. adjective
• Not literal or exact. adjective
• adjective
• Costing nothing; gratuitous. adjective
• Publicly supported. adjective
• adjective
• Unobstructed; clear. adjective

The word "free" in example sentences

When you use your right of free speech to insult, or degrade someone because of their race, gender or political stance, itis longer * free* speech.. [Trolls, Anger, Taking Offense and One-Hit- Wonders]

For all of the talk, we know nothing of true 'free markets'-and what we know should be a caution yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' For all of the talk, we know nothing of true \'free markets\'-and what we know should be a caution '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: Now we are facing a historic transfer of wealth, as millions of property owners face foreclosure, eviction and possible homelessness.. [For all of the talk, we know nothing of true 'free markets'-and what we know should be a caution]

I have to live my life not just for myself, but for Sage, Zara and Bliss. and take comfort in the realization that half of our earthbound life is spent in dreams, and that is where I am free to run and play ~with two little girls and a boy~ That ~are~ always with me. shhh, this is my dream. this is me, being set free~ old starlight - new starbright. [wendchymes Diary Entry]

Dred Scott, a slave, sought to be declared a free man on the basis that he had lived for a time in a “free” territory with his master.. [Dred Scott decision]

_Enter_ Ravensburg, _hastily, in the dress of a free knight, with a paper in his hand, followed by two free_ knights.. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810]

It was not a free life and it could not be a true life, for they all believed in the motto, "The _truth_ shall make you _free_," and instead of freedom, the "Communities" used mental constraint and tyranny to hold themselves together.. [Brook Farm]

The three months have expired, and I am once more a free American citizen, and for the first time in my life I know what it is to be _free_.. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862]

Since that day, many have been the demonstrations of grateful joy and gladness on the glorious anniversary of the emancipation of slaves on the West India Islands; and yet, in this boasted "land of the free, and home of the brave;" this famous and declared _free_ Republic, -- the. [Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West]

So I sat, and I thought what such a thing would mean to me -- it would make my reputation in a day -- I should be free -- _free_!. [The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow]

And they may take it as they please -- my soul is free -- _free_ once again!. [The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow]

’ And therefore if a man should talk to me of a ‘round quadrangle, ’ or ‘accidents of bread in cheese, ’ or ‘immaterial substances, ’ or of ‘a free subject, ’ ‘a free will, ’ or any ‘free’ but free from being hindered by opposition, I should not say he were in an error, but that his words were without meaning, that is to say absurd.. [Chapter V. Of Reason and Science]

She didn't understand in the least how it had happened, but she knew that at last she was free -- _free_ -- like the other girls whom she had envied; and dimly she began to realise that this was a big thing -- something that would make all her life different.. [The Torch Bearer A Camp Fire Girls' Story]

Here the descendants of a colored mother _never_ become free; in the West Indies, they cease to be slaves in the _fourth generation_, at farthest; and their posterity increase the _free_ colored class, instead of adding countless links to the chain of bondage.. [An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans]

"Any person whose _maternal_ ancestor, even in the _remotest_ degree of distance, can be shown to have been a negro, Indian, mulatto, or a mestizo, _not_ free at the time this law was introduced, although the _paternal_ ancestor at each successive generation may have been a _white free_ man, is declared to be the subject of perpetual slavery.". [An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans]

The next day, in allusion to the servants who by reason of the sabbatical year were newly set free, he said, _If ye continue in my word, the truth shall make you free_.. [Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John]

All these and more are free in the * free* Mime Swag from Del and Fade, including my favourite the Cat Burglar. [World of SL]