'Volunteer' definitions:
Definition of 'volunteer'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Without payment; "the soup kitchen was run primarily by unpaid helpers"; "a volunteer fire department" [syn: unpaid, volunteer(a)]
noun
(military) a person who freely enlists for service [syn: volunteer, military volunteer, voluntary] [ant: conscript, draftee, inductee]
noun
A person who performs voluntary work [syn: volunteer, unpaid worker]
noun
A native or resident of Tennessee [syn: Tennessean, Volunteer]
verb
Tell voluntarily; "He volunteered the information"
verb
Agree freely; "She volunteered to drive the old lady home"; "I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it" [syn: volunteer, offer]
verb
Do volunteer work
Definition of 'Volunteer'
From: GCIDE
- Volunteer \Vol`un*teer"\, a. Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Volunteer'
From: GCIDE
- Volunteer \Vol`un*teer"\, n. [F. volontaire. See Voluntary, a.]
- 1. One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Mil.) One who enters into service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law) A grantee in a voluntary conveyance; one to whom a conveyance is made without valuable consideration; a party, other than a wife or child of the grantor, to whom, or for whose benefit, a voluntary conveyance is made. --Burrill. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A plant, especially a flowering plant in a garden, that appears spontaneously without having been intentionally planted. [RDH]
Definition of 'Volunteer'
From: GCIDE
- Volunteer \Vol`un*teer"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Volunteered; p. pr. & vb. n. Volunteering.] To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Volunteer'
From: GCIDE
- Volunteer \Vol`un*teer"\, v. i. To enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in that undertaking. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'volunteer'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- arbitrary,
- autonomous,
- autonomousness,
- autonomy,
- come forward,
- discretional,
- discretionary,
- do independently,
- do voluntarily,
- elective,
- free,
- free will,
- gratuitous,
- gratuitousness,
- independence,
- independent,
- need no prodding,
- nonmandatory,
- offered,
- optional,
- proffered,
- self-acting,
- self-action,
- self-active,
- self-activity,
- self-determination,
- self-determined,
- self-determining,
- spontaneity,
- spontaneous,
- spontaneousness,
- step forward,
- unasked,
- unbesought,
- unbidden,
- uncalled-for,
- uncoerced,
- uncompelled,
- unforced,
- unforcedness,
- uninfluenced,
- uninvited,
- unpressured,
- unprompted,
- unrequested,
- unrequired,
- unsolicited,
- unsought,
- voluntariness,
- voluntarism,
- voluntary,
- voluntaryism,
- volunteer militia,
- volunteer navy,
- volunteering,
- willful