"freebie" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈfɹiːbi/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-freebie.wav Forms: freebies [plural]
Rhymes: -iːbi Etymology: From free + -b- (epenthetic) + -ie. Etymology templates: {{af|en|free||-ie|alt2=-b-|pos2=epenthetic}} free + -b- (epenthetic) + -ie Head templates: {{en-noun}} freebie (plural freebies)
  1. (informal) Something which is free; a giveaway or handout. Tags: informal Synonyms: product sample, freebie, gimme, giveaway, gizzit [UK, slang] [military, war, government, politics], handout, schwag, swag Hypernyms: gift, property, trifle Hyponyms: advertique, covermount, junque, product sample, standee, stand-up Related terms: -bie Translations (something which is free — see also handout): 免費的東西 /免费的东西 (miǎnfèi de dōngxi) (Chinese Mandarin), 贈品 /赠品 (zèngpǐn) (Chinese Mandarin), ilmaislahja (Finnish), kylkiäinen (Finnish), bonus (French), échantillon gratuit (French), Gratisgeschenk [neuter] (German), Produktprobe [neuter] (German), Werbegeschenk [neuter] (German), omaggio [masculine] (Italian), campione [masculine] (Italian), സൗജന്യം (saujanyaṁ) (Malayalam), brinde [masculine] (Portuguese), халя́ва (xaljáva) [feminine, slang] (Russian), yapa [feminine] (Spanish), ñapa [feminine] (Spanish), llapa [feminine] (Spanish), dádiva [feminine] (Spanish), vendaje [masculine] (Spanish), feria [feminine] (Spanish), eşantiyon (Turkish)

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Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). 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.