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FREE PEOPLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does free people mean?
• FREE PEOPLE (noun)
The noun FREE PEOPLE has 1 sense:
1. people who are free
Familiarity information: FREE PEOPLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
People who are free
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
free; free people
Context example:
the home of the free and the brave
Hypernyms ("free people" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Context examples
Above all, he was amazed to hear me talk of a mercenary standing army, in the midst of peace, and among a free people.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Once, began the leader, we were a free people, living happily in the great forest, flying from tree to tree, eating nuts and fruit, and doing just as we pleased without calling anybody master.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
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