What is the meaning of free?

noun

• People who are free.
  • usage: "the home of the free and the brave"
  • synonyms: free people

verb

• Grant freedom to; free from confinement.
  • synonyms: liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose
• Relieve from.
  • usage: "Rid the house of pests"
  • synonyms: rid, disembarrass
• Remove or force out from a position.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: dislodge
• Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to.
  • usage: "She exempted me from the exam"
  • synonyms: exempt, relieve
• Make (information) available for publication.
  • usage: "release the list with the names of the prisoners"
  • synonyms: release
• Free from obligations or duties.
  • synonyms: discharge
• Free or remove obstruction from.
  • usage: "free a path across the cluttered floor"
  • synonyms: disengage
• Let off the hook.
  • usage: "I absolve you from this responsibility"
  • synonyms: absolve, justify
• Part with a possession or right.
  • usage: "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne"
  • synonyms: release, relinquish, resign, give up
• Release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition.
  • synonyms: release, liberate
• Make (assets) available.
  • usage: "release the holdings in the dictator's bank account"
  • synonyms: unblock, unfreeze, release

adjective

• Able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint.
  • usage: "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"
• Unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion.
  • usage: "free expansion"; "free oxygen"; "a free electron"
• Costing nothing.
  • usage: "complimentary tickets"; "free admission"
  • synonyms: complimentary, costless, gratis, gratuitous
• Not occupied or in use.
  • usage: "a free locker"; "a free lane"
• Not fixed in position.
  • usage: "the detached shutter fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran"
  • synonyms: detached
• Not held in servitude.
  • usage: "after the Civil War he was a free man"
• Not taken up by scheduled activities.
  • usage: "a free hour between classes"; "spare time on my hands"
  • synonyms: spare
• Completely wanting or lacking.
  • usage: "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"
  • synonyms: barren, destitute, devoid, innocent
• Not literal.
  • usage: "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem"
  • synonyms: loose, liberal

adverb

• Without restraint.
  • usage: "cows in India are running loose"
  • synonyms: loose