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Webster 1913 Edition
Freeman
Free′man
,Noun.
pl.
Freemen
(#)
. [AS.
freóman
; freó
free + mann
man.] 1.
One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal.
2.
A member of a corporation, company, or city, possessing certain privileges; a member of a borough, town, or State, who has the right to vote at elections. See
Liveryman
. Burrill.
Both having been made
freemen
on the same day. Addison.
Webster 1828 Edition
Freeman
FREE'MAN
,Noun.
1.
One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal.2.
One who enjoys or is entitled to a franchise or peculiar privilege; as the freemen of a city or state.Definition 2024
Freeman
freeman
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See also: Freeman
English
Noun
- A free person, particularly:
- (usually historical) A person who is not a serf or slave.
- (historical) A burgher with full freedom of a city, as opposed to nobles, outsiders, bondsmen, and others.
- An honorary freeman: a person who has received an honorary freedom of a city.
- (usually as two words) A person who is a citizen of a free country, as opposed to a subject of a tyranny or totalitarian dictatorship.
- 1836, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Poetry: A Metrical Essay”, republished in The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, 1862, OCLC 5091562, pages 7–8:
- There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
- 1836, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Poetry: A Metrical Essay”, republished in The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, 1862, OCLC 5091562, pages 7–8:
- (Australia, historical) A person who immigrated to Australia freely, as opposed to those transported as convicts, or such a transported convict who has regained his freedom.
- (US and Canada, historical) An independent fur trapper.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- (one who has become free): freedman
Antonyms
Derived terms
- freemanlike
- freeman's
- freemanship
- freeman's key
- freeman's quay
- Harry Freeman's