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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
freestanding
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a freestanding storage unit
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As our top-of-the-range freestanding cooker, the Eclipse is furnished with all of the features you'd ever imagine.
▪ As well as fitted storage units, there is a wide range of freestanding furniture, modular units and shelving on the market.
▪ The Apex embodies all that's good about freestanding cookers.
▪ The complicated postures are such as no freestanding statue of the time could show, and the sculptor has had great difficulties.
▪ There's so much going for the self-contained freestanding format that we've put our best designers to work on our range.
▪ When ordering, check the maximum platform height advised for a freestanding unit.
Wiktionary
freestanding

a. stand or set apart; not attached to anything. alt. stand or set apart; not attached to anything.

WordNet
freestanding

adj. standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything; "a freestanding bell tower"; "a house with a separate garage" [syn: separate]

Usage examples of "freestanding".

There were no freestanding buildings, only glowing piles of rubble intermingled with huge boulders made of a different, nonluminous mineral.

Three-meter pillars of Italian alabaster around its edge supported a low dome of chiseled bronze openwork, and continued in a freestanding colonnade to the entrance.

All were in freestanding buildings--old schoolhouses, abandoned bars, service stations, general stores, even a retired church or two.

With candles burning in wrought-iron sconces and freestanding candelabra, the atmosphere was positively fantastic.

Carved pillars made of whole tree trunks stood in three rings inside, and two huge freestanding gateposts like Abstract Expressionist totem poles marked the southeastern door.

Many of these platforms still held hoarfrosted tables, overturned chairs, bulbous couches, and freestanding tapestries.

He had seen many indexes, but most of them were small freestanding computers with wireless access to a major library.

There were some astonishing buildings on the skylinefairytale, spires wrapped in the lace of white balconies, a great pearshaped dome of sparkling blue tile, a teetering cuboid fantasy of tinted glass and dressed stone, something like a shimmering sphere divided like the segments of an orange into freestanding slices.

Unlike Spire Vanis, Ille Glaive did not live solely within its walls, and pothouses, stables, barracks, covered markets, pieces of freestanding stonework, broken arches, and lightning-cracked towers spilled from the split skin of its east wall.

She sees a pink Sanyo rice cooker on a small counter, and a narrow white plastic freestanding appliance connected to transparent tubing.

She had anticipated something altogether more grand, something colonnaded and freestanding, something like a stately home which arrested the flow and huddle of cramped London brick.

One of the posters was of the grandest conception of all: a freestanding building sitting like a gaudy jewel in the middle of a ten-cubic-story city park.