🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

Livre

Pronunciation / Transliteration: lee-vreh

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Free/friː/
adjectiveverbadverbCEFR A1 (Beginner)Top #150 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Ela se sente livre para expressar suas opiniões."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Not under the control or in the power of another; able to act or be done as one wishes.

    "She felt free to express her opinions without fear of judgment."
As verb
  1. 1

    To release from captivity, confinement, or slavery.

    "The activists worked tirelessly to free the imprisoned journalist."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English 'frēo', meaning 'exempt from political bondage, noble, joyful', of Germanic origin. It is related to Old High German 'frī' and Sanskrit 'priya' meaning 'dear, beloved', evolving over centuries to also denote absence of cost or restriction.

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