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FREE LOVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does free love mean?
• FREE LOVE (noun)
The noun FREE LOVE has 1 sense:
1. sexual intercourse between individuals who are not married to one another
Familiarity information: FREE LOVE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sexual intercourse between individuals who are not married to one another
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
extramarital sex; free love
Hypernyms ("free love" is a kind of...):
criminal congress; unlawful carnal knowledge (forbidden or tabu sexual intercourse between individuals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "free love"):
adultery; criminal conversation; fornication (extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations)
fornication (voluntary sexual intercourse between persons not married to each other)
Context examples
I will come to you here and now, in free love if you will, and I will be proud and glad to be with you.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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