verb
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To make free; set at liberty; release.
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To rid of something that confines or oppresses.
adjective
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(social) Unconstrained.
example
He was given free rein to do whatever he wanted.
synonyms
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Obtainable without any payment.
example
It's free real estate.
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(abstract) Unconstrained.
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(physical) Unconstrained.
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Without; not containing (what is specified); exempt; clear; liberated.
example
We had a wholesome, filling meal, free of meat. I would like to live free from care in the mountains.
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Ready; eager; acting without spurring or whipping; spirited.
example
a free horse
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Invested with a particular freedom or franchise; enjoying certain immunities or privileges; admitted to special rights; followed by of.
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Certain or honourable; the opposite of base.
example
free service; free socage
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Privileged or individual; the opposite of common.
example
a free fishery; a free warren
Examples of freest in a Sentence
And, as far as legislation could make it, Sicily became one of the freest countries in Europe.
As a Hindu by birth, and a Vaishnava by family religion, I have had the freest access to the innermost sanctuaries and to the most secret of scriptures.
One of the freest states in the world, they encouraged a despotic misrule in which falsely-called free citizens were enslaved.
One of the freest states in the world, they encouraged a despotic misrule in which falsely called free citizens were enslaved.
The most distinct and beautiful as well as the freest in growth are cambricum, elegantissimum, pulcherrimum, and trichomanoides.
By training and temperament he was better qualified to appreciate and describe the social life of the people than their physical surroundings, and if the results of his great journey are disappointing to the geographer, his account of the society of the oasis towns, and of the remarkable men who were then ruling in Hail and Riad, must always possess an absorbing interest as a portrait of Arab life in its freest development.
The criticism of Malherbe, followed by the establishment of the Academy, the minute grammatical censures of Claude Favre Vaugelas, and the severe literary censorship of Boileau, turned French in less than three-quarters of a century from one of the freest languages in Europe to one of the most restricted.
But it will be the most ancient one according to the direct line of transmission, and the purest in the sense of being the freest from traceable errors of copying and unauthorized improvements.
It is in this department of criticism that the personal equation has the freest play, and hence the natural adherents of either school of critics should be specially on their guard against their school's peculiar bias.