freeman

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

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.”

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