freeman
noun
a person who is free; a person who enjoys personal, civil, or political liberty.
freeman
1 American
[free-muhn]
/ ˈfri mən /
noun
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freemen
plural
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a person who is free; a person who enjoys personal, civil, or political liberty.
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a person who enjoys or is entitled to citizenship, franchise, or other special privilege.
a freeman of a city.
Freeman
2
American
[free-muhn]
/ ˈfri mən /
noun
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Douglas Southall 1886–1953, U.S. journalist and biographer.
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Edward Augustus, 1823–92, English historian.
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Mary E(leanor Wilkins), 1862–1930, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
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a male given name.
freeman
1
British
/ ˈfriːmən /
noun
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a person who is not a slave or in bondage
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a person who enjoys political and civil liberties; citizen
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a person who enjoys a privilege or franchise, such as the freedom of a city
Freeman
2
British
/ ˈfriːmən /
noun
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Etymology
Origin of freeman
before 1000; Middle English freman, Old English frēoman. See free, man
Example Sentences
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The 69-year-old was posthumously made the city of Southend's first freeman at a ceremony attended by the then Prince of Wales in March.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2022
She looked for a depiction of Balthazar or St. Maurice, two Africans who are portrayed in Renaissance art, and found a Balthazar made in Antwerp about 1515 that was modeled on a Black freeman.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2021
In addition to Article 61, this includes bizarre sounding and legally invalid concepts like "freeman on the land", "sovereign citizens" and "legal name fraud".
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2021
In this view, the unlimited abundance of the American environment guaranteed that every hard-working freeman had the “right to rise,” particularly in the boundless West.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
A freeman from his appearance, dressed in striped gray trousers and a vest of cowhide.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
For Will Freeman, age 29, getting ahead meant starting his own consulting firm while working full time.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
Roberts’ wish appeared granted, as the Dodgers led 3-0 in the first after Freddie Freeman ended his career-long 47-game homer drought with a three-run blast against Cardinals lefty Brycen Mautz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
Following a 12-day trial, Judge Freeman found that SVB Financial exercised complete control over the bank’s strategy and negligently caused billions of dollars in losses, eliminating the FDIC’s obligation to return the deposit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
“Meta wouldn’t settle unless it sees the writing on the wall and feels really exposed,” Nora Freeman Engstrom, a Stanford University law professor, told the New York Times.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
Mr. Freeman: “Sore throat? Don’t worry, it’s going around. Want me to tell you what I see?”
From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson
A common species hunted by freemen and fugitives was the sperm whale, which was most famously represented as Moby Dick.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 17, 2022
From the kitchens run by enslaved people to the family tables of freemen to the careers of entrepreneurs and chefs, “Jubilee” covers the breadth of a true American cuisine.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2019
Taking up the cry, mass rallies denounced the Kansas-Nebraska Act throughout the North, more convinced than ever that a Slave Power conspiracy would bar northern freemen from the West.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
It’s the latest in an old fight, one that goes back to our Reconstruction, when freedmen, freemen, and their white allies tried to build true democracy in the former Confederacy.
From Slate ● Feb. 6, 2017
Longshoremen of the Sea-Guild of Neshum came aboard to unload the cargo—gold, silver, jewelry, fine silks and Southern tapestries, such precious stuff as the lords of Osskil hoard—and the freemen of the crew were dismissed.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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