- (as) free as a bird idiom
- agency
- at will idiom
- autonomist
- autonomous
- blank cheque
- free rein idiom
- free time
- free will
- free-spirited
- freedom
- non-directed
- non-restricted
- non-restrictive
- not be the boss of someone idiom
- paddle your own canoe idiom
- the world is someone's oyster idiom
- walk free idiom
- wiggle room
- wriggle room
Meaning of free spirit in English
- All free spirits ought to congregate on an occasion like this to do homage to the greatness of America as illustrated by the greatness of her sons.
- But you and Karl—such mates—the only free spirits I know!
- Doctors obtain an enormous sense of self-importance at medical school, where they proudly endured the high pressure weeding out of any free spirit unwilling to grind away into the night for seven or more years.
- He has every appearance of the truly free spirit, but he is secretly dependent on that against which he is fighting.
Examples of free spirit
free spirit
Hannah was described as being a free spirit.
Pietri was a free spirit whose performances were nontraditional.
Peter is more inclined to be a free spirit and involve himself with pleasurable things.
Eduardo is regarded as a free spirit, is a deist, does not smoke or drink and regularly adds new tattoo pieces to his body.
Zhangchao remained free spirit in his inner heart and expressed his various desires.
Nietzsche begins with a chapter dedicated to free spirits, described as those who have unbound themselves from dogmatism and transcended the need for objective truth.
That is a remarkable situation and would have been impossible but for the free spirit of this country.
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Would he himself have commanded the free spirit of the country and have been the free leader that he is?
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He himself knows that better than anyone else in the world, because he was the champion of the free spirit.
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It was through the free spirit of our merchant venturers in the past that our country became prosperous and did a great international trade.
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Many of us, especially people in higher education, have fought against this and regretted it because it imprisons the free spirit.
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The country is best defended by the free spirit and devotion of its free citizens, not by its armed forces.
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It is not in accordance with the free spirit of a unanimous country.
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I will do the work of the nation, not in the free air of a great constitutional assembly breathing the free spirit of a free people.
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She is considered a somewhat free spirit as she and her daughters wear trousers.
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