Free World
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6.7
- noun
- /fri wɜrld/
- Archaic
:
mundo libre
- Finally, our confidence as "a leader of the free world" seemed irrevocably tarred by the legacy of Vietnam.
- leader of the Free World
- Free World production
I'm certain Texas, Florida, Virginia maybe will become the sort of last bastion of the free world.
- I'm certain Texas, Florida, Virginia maybe will become the sort of last bastion of the free world.
- Of course it was the most incompetent, cruel, sick, delusional president the free world has ever seen.
- So I think that Pat Gelsinger is completely sincere when he leads Intel to be a tool that supplies the free world with semiconductors.
- This phone is more powerful technology wise than the computers that Ronald Reagan had to run the free world.
- Why is the first lady coming out to run cover for the commander in chief and leader of the free world?
- And the best we can do is lead by example to use Milton Friedman word and Friedman's words to be a beacon to the free world.
- Not only Americans, but the free world really needs to know the difference between socialism, communism and capitalism.
- But I didn't feel like this is fate of the free world important in those times.
- What it's it's so hard to get through my head that the free world is censoring their people that hard.
- So I think now we still have many components for the free world to, to, to, to, to succeed.
- This, this fucking computer is more powerful than the computer that Ronald Reagan had to run the free world.
- That is our nation's new motto, America, where the action is home of the loosest slots in the free world.
Examples
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Mob rule in Little Rock menaces the very safety of the United States and the free world.
Fiction book (2000) -
My husband is the leader of the free world.
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The United States was considered not only the leader but the very heart of "the Free World."
Academic text (2014) -
The future of the entire free world, no less.
Fiction book (2000) -
The future of the free world is riding on this one.
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In the view of the State Department, "South Asia became a testing ground for the free world."
Academic text (2001) -
The future of America and the free world might just depend on how we vote.
Blog text (16) -
The leaders of the free world are here, Greta.
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Not only Americans, but the free world really needs to know the difference between socialism, communism and capitalism.
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During the Cold War, many nations in the free world joined forces to oppose the spread of communism.
Surface Forms
Morphology
A B1 learner who knows 'free' and 'world' can infer a general sense of 'a world of free countries' so there is a clear compositional element, but the specific Cold War geopolitical nuance (i.e. 'non-communist countries opposed to the Soviet Union') and its conventionalized political usage are not fully predictable without exposure. Equivalent terms exist in other languages, which helps comprehension, but the specialized historical/political meaning makes this only partially transparent.
Etymology
Free World became popular during the Cold War when Western leaders talked about a group of nations that were free from communist rule and together formed one world standing against the Soviet Union and its allies. That's why it means 'countries with non-communist governments' today.