free

1. (of a country, etc.) autonomous or independent

2. (of jazz) totally improvised, with no preset melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic basis

3. Law of property

a. not subject to payment of rent or performance of services; freehold

b. not subject to any burden or charge, such as a mortgage or lien; unencumbered

4. Chem chemically uncombined

5. Logic denoting an occurrence of a variable not bound by a quantifier

6. Nautical (of the wind) blowing from the quarter

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