free

/friː/

意味: 自由な人、解放者（※形容詞/動詞の用法が主）

例文: Kai shouted, “The free shall sparkle!”
　　  カイは「自由な者は輝くべし！」と叫んだ。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: free time(自由時間), free speech(言論の自由), free sample(無料サンプル)

定義: 何かが「free」とは、何の制限もなく、自由であることを意味します。また、何かが無料で提供されることも指します。例えば、商品やサービスが「free」の場合、お金を払わずに手に入れることができます。

freeは約2,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Noun: people who are free
Verb: grant freedom to; free from confinement
Verb: relieve from
Verb: remove or force out from a position
Verb: grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
Verb: make (information) available for publication
Verb: free from obligations or duties
Verb: free or remove obstruction from
Verb: let off the hook
Verb: part with a possession or right
Verb: release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
Verb: make (assets) available
Adjective: able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint
Adjective: unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion
Adjective: costing nothing
Adjective: not occupied or in use
Adjective: not fixed in position
Adjective: not held in servitude
Adjective: not taken up by scheduled activities
Adjective: completely wanting or lacking
Adjective: not literal
Adverb: without restraint

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Noun, Verb, Adjective, Adverb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The book is free for all readers today.(その本は今日、誰でも無料で読めます。)
She feels free to express her opinions.(彼女は自由に意見を言えると感じています。)
They offered free samples at the store.(店で無料サンプルが配られました。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Noun: the home of the free and the brave
Verb: Rid the house of pests
Verb: The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums
Verb: He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble
Verb: She exempted me from the exam
Verb: release the list with the names of the prisoners
Verb: free a path across the cluttered floor
Verb: I absolve you from this responsibility
Verb: I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest
Verb: resign a claim to the throne
Verb: release the holdings in the dictator’s bank account
Adjective: free enterprise
Adjective: a free port
Adjective: a free country
Adjective: I have an hour free
Adjective: free will
Adjective: free of racism
Adjective: feel free to stay as long as you wish
Adjective: a free choice
Adjective: free expansion
Adjective: free oxygen
Adjective: a free electron
Adjective: complimentary tickets
Adjective: free admission
Adjective: a free locker
Adjective: a free lane
Adjective: the detached shutter fell on him
Adjective: he pulled his arm free and ran
Adjective: after the Civil War he was a free man
Adjective: a free hour between classes
Adjective: spare time on my hands
Adjective: writing barren of insight
Adjective: young recruits destitute of experience
Adjective: innocent of literary merit
Adjective: the sentence was devoid of meaning
Adjective: a loose interpretation of what she had been told
Adjective: a free translation of the poem
Adverb: cows in India are running loose

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): absolve, barren, complimentary, costless, destitute, detached, devoid, discharge, disembarrass, disengage, dislodge, exempt, free, free people, give up, gratis, gratuitous, innocent, justify, liberal, liberate, loose, release, relieve, relinquish, resign, rid, spare, unblock, unfreeze, unloose, unloosen

Antonyms(反意語): blame, block, bound, confine, enforce, freeze, lodge, obstruct, unfree

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): forgive, generate, issue, pass, people, remove

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): ablate, absolve, age group, amputate, ancients, aspirate, baffled, bail, bail out, blind, blood, bone, brave, brush, bur, burl, business people, carve out, chip away, chosen people, circumcise, class, clean, clear, clear off, clientele, coevals, come up, condense, crumb, damned, de-iodinate, de-ionate, dead, deaf, deal, decalcify, decarbonize, decorticate, defang, defeated, defuse, degas, dehorn, delete, delouse, demineralize, desorb, detoxify, develop, dig, disabled, discharge, disembowel, dislodge, doomed, draw, draw off, dredge, eliminate, empty, enemy, entrust, enucleate, epilate, episcopacy, excavate, excuse, exenterate, expectorate, extirpate, extract, flick, folk, free, give, gut, hand over, harvest, head, homebound, hull, husk, hypophysectomize, induce, initiate, knock out, ladle, leach, lift, living, lobby, mentally retarded, migration, muck, nation, nationality, network army, pardon, peanut gallery, peoples, pick, pit, pocket, poor people, populace, population, pull, rank and file, ream, reissue, release, remit, resect, retreated, rich people, scale, scalp, scavenge, scoop, seed, shed, shell, shrive, shuck, sick, skim, slip, smart money, spoon, stem, string, strip, take away, take off, take out, tear away, timid, tip, tradespeople, tusk, unblock, unburden, unconfessed, undock, unemployed people, unhinge, uninitiate, unpack, unsaddle, unstring, unveil, wash, wear away, weed, winnow, wipe off, withdraw, womankind, wounded

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): bail, bail out, cashier, cleanse, clear, cut, declassify, deregulate, derequisition, derestrict, dig out, disembody, disinfest, disinvolve, dispense, divest, excuse, extricate, forgive, liberate, parole, relieve, run, sacrifice, smooth, spare, take over, unchain, unclog, unspell, unstuff, wash one’s hands

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: absolvitory, discharge, disembarrassment, exemption, free, freeing, justification, liberation, liberator, liberty, looseness, release, relinquishing, relinquishment, riddance

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: law

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: conversation, descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞):

Exam Level

中学レベル

英検3級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1, Holes

Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, Finding Nemo, Frozen, The Bad Guys

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: