"free love" meaning in All languages combined

See free love on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-free love.wav [US]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} free love (uncountable)
  1. The practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment. Tags: uncountable Related terms: free lover, free sex Translations (practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment): 自由性愛 /自由性爱 (zìyóu xìng'ài) (Chinese Mandarin), vapaa rakkaus (Finnish), freie Liebe [feminine] (German), wolna miłość [feminine] (Polish)
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "free love (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Polish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Love",
          "orig": "en:Love",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sex",
          "orig": "en:Sex",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              371,
              380
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison:",
          "text": "The deceased, Philip Boyes, was, as you have heard, a writer. He was thirty-six years old, and he had published five novels and a large number of essays and articles. All these literary works were of what is sometimes called an ‘advanced’ type. They preached doctrines which may seem to some of us immoral or seditious, such as atheism, and anarchy, and what is known as free love. His private life appears to have been conducted, for some time at least, in accordance with these doctrines.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              243,
              252
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1974, “Potiphar”, in Tim Rice (lyrics), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat:",
          "text": "Joseph’s looks and handsome figure had attracted her attention. Every morning she would beckon: “Come and lie with me, love.” Joseph wanted to resist her til one day she proved too eager. Joseph cried in vain: “Please stop! I don’t believe in free love!”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              86,
              95
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2012, Lois Banner, Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox, page 262:",
          "text": "Sometimes prudish and sometimes outrageous, Marilyn rationalized her behavior through free love ideas.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment."
      ],
      "id": "en-free_love-en-noun-74tgVuWg",
      "links": [
        [
          "sexual intercourse",
          "sexual intercourse"
        ],
        [
          "marriage",
          "marriage"
        ],
        [
          "commitment",
          "commitment"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "free lover"
        },
        {
          "word": "free sex"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "lang_code": "cmn",
          "roman": "zìyóu xìng'ài",
          "sense": "practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment",
          "word": "自由性愛 /自由性爱"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "sense": "practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment",
          "word": "vapaa rakkaus"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "lang_code": "de",
          "sense": "practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "freie Liebe"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "lang_code": "pl",
          "sense": "practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "wolna miłość"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-free love.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-free_love.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-free_love.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-free_love.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-free_love.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "free love"
}
{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "free love (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "free lover"
    },
    {
      "word": "free sex"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "en:Love",
        "en:Sex"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              371,
              380
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison:",
          "text": "The deceased, Philip Boyes, was, as you have heard, a writer. He was thirty-six years old, and he had published five novels and a large number of essays and articles. All these literary works were of what is sometimes called an ‘advanced’ type. They preached doctrines which may seem to some of us immoral or seditious, such as atheism, and anarchy, and what is known as free love. His private life appears to have been conducted, for some time at least, in accordance with these doctrines.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              243,
              252
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1974, “Potiphar”, in Tim Rice (lyrics), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat:",
          "text": "Joseph’s looks and handsome figure had attracted her attention. Every morning she would beckon: “Come and lie with me, love.” Joseph wanted to resist her til one day she proved too eager. Joseph cried in vain: “Please stop! I don’t believe in free love!”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              86,
              95
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2012, Lois Banner, Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox, page 262:",
          "text": "Sometimes prudish and sometimes outrageous, Marilyn rationalized her behavior through free love ideas.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sexual intercourse",
          "sexual intercourse"
        ],
        [
          "marriage",
          "marriage"
        ],
        [
          "commitment",
          "commitment"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-free love.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-free_love.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-free_love.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/c6/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-free_love.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Flame%2C_not_lame-free_love.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "roman": "zìyóu xìng'ài",
      "sense": "practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment",
      "word": "自由性愛 /自由性爱"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment",
      "word": "vapaa rakkaus"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "freie Liebe"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "practice of sexual intercourse without the restraints of marriage or commitment",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "wolna miłość"
    }
  ],
  "word": "free love"
}

Download raw JSONL data for free love meaning in All languages combined (3.5kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (1a05e46 and e3d6d4e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.