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Freemason
[ free-mey-suhn, free-mey- ]
noun
- a member of a widely distributed secret order Free and Accepted Masons, having for its object mutual assistance and the promotion of brotherly love among its members.
- (lowercase) History/Historical.
- one of a class of skilled stoneworkers of the Middle Ages, possessing secret signs and passwords.
- a member of a society composed of such workers, which also included honorary members accepted masons not connected with the building trades.
Freemason
1/ ˌfriːməˈsɒnɪk; ˈfriːˌmeɪsən /
noun
- a member of the widespread secret order, constituted in London in 1717, of Free and Accepted Masons , pledged to brotherly love, faith, and charity Sometimes shortened toMason
freemason
2/ ˈfriːˌmeɪsən; ˌfriːməˈsɒnɪk /
noun
- medieval history a member of a guild of itinerant skilled stonemasons, who had a system of secret signs and passwords with which they recognized each other
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Derived Forms
- Freemasonic, adjective
- freemasonic, adjective
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Other Words From
- free·ma·son·ic [free-m, uh, -, son, -ik], adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Freemason1
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Example Sentences
The American Mackey, as a consistent Freemason, shows scant sympathy for this traitor in the masonic camp.
One can never be sure, he said, of a converted Freemason, but must always fear lest he may return to his former friends.
As a member of the freemason fraternity he was known as Gay Lussac.
Freemason, between Brewer and Granby, presented a sea deep enough to float a vessel of one hundred tons.
The seventy-second anniversary festival of this institution was held at Freemason's Hall on the 30th of March, 1870.
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