Freeman

Word FREEMAN
Character 7
Hyphenation free man
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Freeman"

What do we mean by freeman?

A person not in slavery or serfdom. noun

One who possesses the rights or privileges of a citizen. noun

A man who is free; one who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or a vassal. noun

One who enjoys or is entitled to citizenship, franchise, or other peculiar privilege: as, a freeman of a city or state. In olden times the position of such a freeman gave the right to trade in the place. noun

In early English history, a ceorl; one admitted to a share in the land and corporate life of the village community. noun

One who enjoys liberty, or who is not subject to the will of another; one not a slave or vassal. noun

A member of a corporation, company, or city, possessing certain privileges; a member of a borough, town, or State, who has the right to vote at elections. See Liveryman. noun

A free man, one who is not a serf or slave. noun

Or ceremonial A person awarded or inheriting the freedom, with any attached privileges, of a borough or city. noun

A person who is not a serf or a slave noun

A free person, particularly:

Synonyms and Antonyms for Freeman

The word "freeman" in example sentences

_freeman_; and if a freeman in the common acceptation of the term, then ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

[334] I use the term freeman, because the colony being under the ❋ George W. Williams (1870)

He uses typical right wing troll tactics, by derailing the threads with off topic crap, while pretending to be part of the far left. freeman, is just another, in a long list of wing nut trolls. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Well you knocked yourself in the head with the obvious stick PS and will eventually realize that freeman is here to do exactly that. ❋ Unknown (2010)

April 22nd, 2010 at 11: 34 am hellinabucket says: freeman is freefalling. ❋ Unknown (2010)

April 26th, 2010 at 12: 53 pm angels81 says: freeman is nothing more then a tool for the right wing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

April 26th, 2010 at 4: 24 pm tombaker says: freeman is freaking out to the times of a thousand. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Posted January 6, 2007 3: 28 AM martin freeman writes: ❋ Unknown (2009)

I have called him twice for his dishonesty on this thread and he keeps posting the same lies and drivel. freeman is a troll. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Enjoy the flower, but respect the thorns; ignore the thorns at your own peril. freeman is a thorn. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Oh golly freeman is repeating what Jon Stewart said last night. ❋ Unknown (2010)

April 26th, 2010 at 4: 32 pm bluesunflower says: tombaker says: freeman is freaking out to the times of a thousand. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The scene with morgan freeman is Target was fantastic. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Gwyna further explains that the odious Syrian freeman is her sponsus. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Now, if the word freeman were not potent enough to admit a free negro to suffrage under the first constitution, it is difficult to discern a degree of magic in the intervening plan of emancipation sufficient to give it potency, in the apprehension of the convention, under the second. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

On this principle, it is difficult to discover how the word freeman, as used in previous public acts, could have been meant to comprehend a coloured race: as well might it be supposed, that the declaration of universal and unalienable freedom in both our constitutions was meant to comprehend it. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

Let it not be said that the legal meaning of the word freeman is peculiar to British corporations, and that we have it not in the charters and constitutions of Pennsylvania. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

Thus, till the instant when the phrase on which the question turns was penned, the term freeman had a peculiar and specific sense, being used like the term citizen, which supplanted it, to denote one who had a voice in public affairs. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

At that time, certainly, the case of a manumitted slave, or of his free-born progeny, was not contemplated as one to be provided for in the founder's scheme of policy: I have quoted the passage, however, to show that the word freeman was applied in a peculiar sense to the political compact of our ancestors, resting like a corporation, on a charter from the crown; and exactly as it was applied to bodies politic at home. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

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