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)
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.
First recorded in 1350–1400, Freemason is from the Middle English word fremason. See free, mason
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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
After Jamie is named a Freemason by the prison governor, tension rises between him and the devout Protestant Tom Christie, played by Mark Lewis Jones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2022
Then a further line of big-handed, white-gloved men in beavers and regalias; for he had been also a Freemason and an Odd-fellow.
From Dr. Sevier by Cable, George Washington
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
Born Herman Sonny Blount in 1913, Sun Ra seems to have hidden in plain sight as a freemason throughout his career.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2014
At his funeral in 2002, Townshend was startled to discover the man he'd been in a band with for 40 years was a lifelong freemason.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 9, 2012
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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