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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
volunteer
    adj 1: without payment; "the soup kitchen was run primarily by
           unpaid helpers"; "a volunteer fire department" [syn:
           unpaid, volunteer(a)]
    n 1: (military) a person who freely enlists for service [syn:
         volunteer, military volunteer, voluntary] [ant:
         conscript, draftee, inductee]
    2: a person who performs voluntary work [syn: volunteer,
       unpaid worker]
    3: a native or resident of Tennessee [syn: Tennessean,
       Volunteer]
    v 1: tell voluntarily; "He volunteered the information"
    2: 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]
    3: do volunteer work

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]

3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Volunteer \Vol`un*teer"\, a.
   Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of
   volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer
   advice.
   [1913 Webster]

4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]

5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]

Thesaurus Results for volunteer:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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