a person who is free; a person who enjoys personal, civil, or political liberty.
a person who enjoys or is entitled to citizenship, franchise, or other special privilege.
a freeman of a city.
Douglas Southall 1886–1953, U.S. journalist and biographer.
Edward Augustus, 1823–92, English historian.
Mary E(leanor Wilkins), 1862–1930, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
a male given name.
a person who is not a slave or in bondage
a person who enjoys political and civil liberties; citizen
a person who enjoys a privilege or franchise, such as the freedom of a city
before 1000; Middle English freman, Old English frēoman. See free, man
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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
In fact, no defence based on so-called freeman on the land, sovereign citizen or legal name fraud theory has ever succeeded in court.
From BBC • Mar. 5, 2021
I hesitated to include this 2013 drama, directed by Steve McQueen and adapted from the memoirs of Solomon Northup, an African-American freeman enslaved and sent to the South.
From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2019
“A city slave is almost a freeman, compared with a slave on a plantation,” Douglass wrote.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 8, 2018
“But I swear before all present, on my word as a freeman of the colony, that the girl is no witch.”
From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare
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