free love

noun

1

: living openly with a sexual partner without marriage

2

: sexual relations with no commitments by either partner

Examples of free love in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But a motley array of other people—advocates of free love, avant-garde painters, grifters fleecing ex-aristocrats—took advantage of the chaos to promote their own agendas. — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026

His is a more enlightened era, but Hannes, lonely and withdrawn, doesn’t share his classmates’ interest in campus sit-ins and free love. — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 May 2026

While there was a sprinkling of back-to-the-land hippies in my town, the free love and sexuality fluidity of the 1960s hadn’t reached us. — Jennifer Acker, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026

The president was a crook, their friends were dying, and the previous decade of free love and expression seemed far away. — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1705, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Rhymes for free love

• above
• foxglove
• hereof
• thereof
• whereof
• dove
• glove
• of
• shove
• hereinabove