Freemason
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.
Freemason
American
[free-may-suhn, free-may-]
/ ˈfriˌmeɪ sən, ˌfriˈmeɪ- /
noun
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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.
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(lowercase)
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one of a class of skilled stoneworkers of the Middle Ages, possessing secret signs and passwords.
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a member of a society composed of such workers, which also included honorary members accepted masons not connected with the building trades.
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Freemason
1
British
/ ˈfriːˌmeɪsən /
noun
freemason
2
British
/ ˈfriːˌmeɪsən /
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of Freemason
First recorded in 1350–1400, Freemason is from the Middle English word fremason. See free, mason
Example Sentences
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During the court case, the Met offered clarifications on how it would handle data from Freemason officers.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
The most paranoid anti-Masons I've encountered, either online or in the real world, have never bothered to speak to a Freemason.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2023
Full disclosure: I became a Freemason in 2002 and a 32nd Degree Scottish Rite Freemason in 2004.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2023
Though Freemasonry wasn’t a religion, per se, Berrow explains that to be a Freemason, one had to believe in “a supreme being.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2022
He became a Freemason in 1781, joining an army lodge at West Point, and was also a member of the Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati.
From Tea Leaves Being a Collection of Letters and Documents relating to the shipment of Tea to the American Colonies in the year 1773, by the East India Tea Company. (With an introduction, notes, and biographical notices of the Boston Tea Party) by Francis S. (Francis Samuel) Drake
The young man was found dead in a small room near the entrance to the Hall of the Augustales, a civic order of freedmen, a bit like a freemason lodge.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2025
A Franco-era report that came to light in 2015 claimed that Lorca was “a freemason belonging to the Alhambra lodge.”
From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2017
Nikki Roberts, Brian's 31-year-old granddaughter, is held up as an example of the new kind of freemason with her Facebook page and media-friendly ways.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2013
Why would anyone want to become a freemason?
From The Guardian ● Apr. 30, 2013
He’d say, Is this what the men of Ireland fought and died for that my own son is sitting there at the kitchen table reading the freemason paper?
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
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