freeman

¹

[ free-muhn ]

noun

, plural free·men.

1. a person who is free; a person who enjoys personal, civil, or political liberty.
2. a person who enjoys or is entitled to citizenship, franchise, or other special privilege:

   a freeman of a city.

Freeman

²

[ free-muhn ]

noun

1. Douglas Sou·thall [sou, -, th, awl], 1886–1953, U.S. journalist and biographer.
2. Edward Augustus, 1823–92, English historian.
3. Mary E(leanor Wilkins), 1862–1930, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
4. a male given name.

freeman

¹

/ ˈfriːmən /

noun

1. a person who is not a slave or in bondage
2. a person who enjoys political and civil liberties; citizen
3. a person who enjoys a privilege or franchise, such as the freedom of a city

Freeman

²

/ ˈfriːmən /

noun

1. FreemanCathy1973FAustralianSPORT: sprinter Cathy, full name Catherine Astrid Salome Freeman . born 1973, Australian sprinter; winner of the 200m and 400m in the 1994 Commonwealth Games and the 400m in the 2000 Olympic Games

Other Words From

• non·freeman noun plural nonfreemen

Word History and Origins

Origin of freeman¹

before 1000; Middle English freman, Old English frēoman. See free, man

Example Sentences

“This is wrecking people’s livelihoods,” says Landon, who mentored Freeman when the lawman got into bees.

From Popular-Science

One of Freeman’s friends convinced him that, instead of complaining about the iPhone’s lack of software, he should get to work and create software of his own.

From Washington Post

Freeman was a third-round draft pick in 2017 who began his rookie year as the Broncos’ starting running back before Phillip Lindsay overtook him.

From Washington Post

In all, Freeman has simply been better, and at a point in his career when players rarely improve.

From FiveThirtyEight

As our needs increase here, we’ve increased free testing and those walk-ups and the Freeman drive-thru so we make sure that communities that might not be able to access testing are able to access testing.

From FiveThirtyEight

All of which makes David Freeman's portrait of Hitchcock in his final days all the more poignant.

From The Daily Beast

To make great films, that's one thing,” Freeman writes, “to make yourself happy, that's quite another.

From The Daily Beast

Still, Morgan Freeman, for instance, is a bit of a raging liberal.

From The Daily Beast

McCollum added, “I want to tell you something, Joe Freeman, God got your judgment right in hell waiting for you.”

From The Daily Beast

Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood and Paul Newman were all considered for the role that went to Morgan Freeman.

From The Daily Beast

One presented himself, and it thenceforth became as dangerous to kill a slave as a freeman in Barbadoes.

From Project Gutenberg

The Northern freeman knows no records; he despises the "papers."

From Project Gutenberg

No freeman could be arrested or imprisoned except under a legal warrant.

From Project Gutenberg

Like Noon and Freeman, he used the eye reaction to test his patients and found them most sensitive to rag weed.

From Project Gutenberg

Looking down to his left and through the trees, he commanded a view of Freeman Avenue.

From Project Gutenberg