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say it: free
free is a verb, adjective, noun and adverb meaning "grant freedom to; free from confinement". It carries 22 recorded senses.
grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
“She exempted me from the exam”
make (information) available for publication
“release the list with the names of the prisoners”
let off the hook
“I absolve you from this responsibility”
part with a possession or right
“I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest”
“resign a claim to the throne”
not limited or 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”
not taken up by scheduled activities
“a free hour between classes”
“spare time on my hands”
completely wanting or lacking
“writing barren of insight”
“young recruits destitute of experience”
“innocent of literary merit”
“the sentence was devoid of meaning”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for free come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.