: in a free manner: such as
a
: of one's own accord
left home freely
b
: with freedom from external control
a freely elected government
c
: without restraint or reservation
spent freely on clothes
d
: without hindrance
a gate swinging freely
e
: not strictly following a model, convention, or rule
freely translated
Examples of freely in a Sentence
I will freely give my life for my country.
the horse broke the halter rope quite freely
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It was made freely available online, including to users overseas.
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Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Urban Dog Bar, one of Nashville’s newest dog-friendly destinations, offers a spacious 5,000-square-foot indoor area and a massive 15,500-square-foot outdoor park where dogs can roam freely off-leash.
—Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
The framework is now freely available online for designers and engineers worldwide.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
The company posted 6,955 lines of assembly language code to GitHub under an MIT license, allowing anyone to freely use, modify, and distribute the code that helped launch the personal computer revolution.
—ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
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Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Urban Dog Bar, one of Nashville’s newest dog-friendly destinations, offers a spacious 5,000-square-foot indoor area and a massive 15,500-square-foot outdoor park where dogs can roam freely off-leash.
—Diana Leyva, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sep. 2025
The framework is now freely available online for designers and engineers worldwide.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
The company posted 6,955 lines of assembly language code to GitHub under an MIT license, allowing anyone to freely use, modify, and distribute the code that helped launch the personal computer revolution.
—ArsTechnica, 4 Sep. 2025
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“Freely.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/freely. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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