free
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Is free a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of free?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (social) Unconstrained.Examples: "He was given free rein to do whatever he wanted."; "Quickly, spirit! / Thou shalt ere long be free."; "There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”"Synonyms: unconstrained, unfettered, unhindered, quitAntonyms: constrained, restricted
2. (social) Unconstrained.Examples: "Free Blacks"; "a free man"Synonyms: unconstrained, unfettered, unhindered, quitAntonyms: constrained, restricted, bound, enslaved, imprisoned
3. (social) Unconstrained.Examples: "He's very free with his money."Synonyms: unconstrained, unfettered, unhindered, quitAntonyms: constrained, restricted
4. (social) Unconstrained.Examples: "My hands are guilty, but my heart is free."Synonyms: unconstrained, unfettered, unhindered, quitAntonyms: constrained, restrictedobsolete
5. (social) Unconstrained.Examples: "free time"Synonyms: unconstrained, unfettered, unhindered, quitAntonyms: constrained, restricted
6. (social) Unconstrained.Examples: "a free school"; "Why, sir, I pray, are not the streets as free / For me as for you?"Synonyms: unconstrained, unfettered, unhindered, quitAntonyms: constrained, restricted
adv (English)
1. (obsolete) Freely; willingly.Examples: "I as free forgive you / As I would be forgiven."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To make free; set at liberty; release.Examples: "Pro.[…]Spirit, fine ſpirit, Ile free thee / Within two dayes for this."; "Liberia was founded in 1822 by the American Colonization Society whose goal was to resettle freed slaves in Africa."transitive
2. (transitive) To rid of something that confines or oppresses. [with from]Examples: "Then I walked about, till I found on the further side, a great river of sweet water, running with a strong current; whereupon I called to mind the boat-raft I had made aforetime and said to myself, "Needs must I make another; haply I may free me from this strait. If I escape, I have my desire and I vow to Allah Almighty to forswear travel; and if I perish I shall be at peace and shall rest from toil and moil.""transitive
3. (transitive, programming) To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system.Examples: "There is no way to access that original area of memory, nor is there any way to free it before the program ends."transitive
noun (English)
1. (Australian rules football, Gaelic football) Abbreviation of free kick.Examples: "Whether deserved or not, the free gave Cresswell the chance to cover himself in glory with a shot on goal after the siren."abbreviationalt-of
2. (soccer) A free transfer.Examples: "Hargreaves, who left Manchester United on a free during the summer, drilled a 22-yard beauty to open the scoring."
3. (hurling) The usual means of restarting play after a foul is committed, where the non-offending team restarts from where the foul was committed.
4. (swimming, informal) Abbreviation of freestyle.Examples: "The team won the 200 meters free relay."abbreviationalt-ofinformal
Definition source: Wiktionary