freeman

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A free person; A person who is not a serf or slave. historical,usually
  2. A free person; A burgher with full freedom of a city, as opposed to nobles, outsiders, bondsmen, and others. historical
  3. A free person; A person who has received an honorary freedom of a city.
  4. A free person; A person who is a citizen of a free country, as opposed to a subject of a tyranny or totalitarian dictatorship. usually
    — 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; 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
  6. A free person; An independent fur trapper. Canada,US,historical

词形变化

freemen plural

词汇关系

近义词
citizen burgher burgess
反义词
slave bondsman serf
下位词
freedman
衍生词
freemanlike freeman on the land freeman's freemanship freeman's key freeman's quay Harry Freeman's nonfreeman

词源

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