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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.
[free and man.]
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

See also: freeman

English

Proper noun

Freeman

  1. A surname.
  2. A city in South Dakota
  3. A town in Wisconsin

freeman

freeman

See also: Freeman

English

Noun

freeman (plural freemen)

  1. A free person, particularly:
    1. (usually historical) A person who is not a serf or slave.
    2. (historical) A burgher with full freedom of a city, as opposed to nobles, outsiders, bondsmen, and others.
    3. An honorary freeman: a person who has received an honorary freedom of a city.
    4. (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.
    5. (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.
    6. (US and Canada, historical) An independent fur trapper.

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  • freemanlike
  • freeman's
  • freemanship
  • freeman's key
  • freeman's quay
  • Harry Freeman's

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