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Meaning of freeman | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
ˈfɹiː.mən

Definitions

  1. neighbour (a person living on adjacent or nearby land)
  2. A surname.
    countable
  3. A free person
    historical, usually
  4. A person who is not a serf or slave.
    historical, usually
  5. a resident or inhabitant of an area, especially of a neighborhood or a village
  6. An English surname from Middle English.
    countable, uncountable
  7. A burgher with full freedom of a city, as opposed to nobles, outsiders, bondsmen, and others.
    historical
  8. freeman, person of relatively high status associated with a place
  9. A freed slave surname originating as an occupation.
    countable, uncountable
  10. A person who has received an honorary freedom of a city.
  11. neighboring, adjacent
  12. A male given name.
    countable, uncountable
  13. A person who is a citizen of a free country, as opposed to a subject of a tyranny or totalitarian dictatorship.
    usually
  14. A number of places in the United States:
    countable, uncountable
  15. An unincorporated community in Early County, Georgia.
    countable, uncountable
  16. A person who immigrated to Australia freely, as opposed to those transported as convicts, or such a transported convict who has regained his freedom.
    Australia, historical
  17. An unincorporated community in Kane County, Illinois.
    countable, uncountable
  18. An independent fur trapper.
    Canada, US, historical
  19. An unincorporated community in Clay Township, Owen County, Indiana.
    countable, uncountable
  20. A township in Clare County, Michigan.
    countable, uncountable
  21. A township in Freeborn County, Minnesota.
    countable, uncountable
  22. A city in Hutchinson County, South Dakota.
    countable, uncountable
  23. An unincorporated community in Spokane County, Washington.
    countable, uncountable
  24. A town in Crawford County, Wisconsin.
    countable, uncountable
  25. An unincorporated community in the town of Langlade, Langlade County, Wisconsin.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

العربية فريمان
Bosanski većino
Deutsch Kerl
Español vecino
Français homme libre
עברית בן חורין
Hrvatski većino
日本語 自由人 自由民
한국어 자유민 자유인
Српски većino

Examples

“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.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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