noun
- (sometimes initial capital letters) a church free from state control.Compare established church.
- (sometimes initial capital letters) a dissenting or nonconforming church.
- (initial capital letters) Also Free Kirk. (in Scotland) the church established by those who left the Church of Scotland in 1843.
noun
- mainly British
- any Protestant Church, esp the Presbyterian, other than the Established Church
- (as modifier)Free-Church attitudes