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Vinony

freeman

noun

  1. person not enslaved
  2. position; former apprentice who has been granted freedom of a livery company or guild
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Pronunciation: /ˈfɹiː.mən/ / /ˈfɹiːˌmæn/

name

Etymology: * Proprialisation of freeman. From originating as a freeman (instead of a serf, indentured, or some other status) * free + man. A surname taken up by freed slaves.

  1. A surname.

    “It appears that Drs. Jones and Freeman account for the arch over the hagioscope at St. David's by saying, though without citing authorities, that there was a door there originally.”

  2. A surname.
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  4. A male given name transferred from the surname.
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noun

Etymology: From Old English frēomann, equivalent to free + -man and paralleled by similar constructions in other Germanic languages. Doublet of preman.

  1. A free person
  2. A free person
  3. A free person
  4. A free person

    “There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.”

  5. A free person
  6. A free person