different between freeman vs freedman

English

Etymology

free +? -man, paralleled by similar constructions in other Germanic languages.

Pronunciation

Noun

freeman (plural freemen)

1. A free person, particularly:
   1. (usually historical) A person who is not a serf or slave.
   2. (historical) A burgher with full freedom of a city, as opposed to nobles, outsiders, bondsmen, and others.
   3. An honorary freeman: a person who has received an honorary freedom of a city.
   4. (usually as two words) A person who is a citizen of a free country, as opposed to a subject of a tyranny or totalitarian dictatorship.
      • 1836, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Poetry: A Metrical Essay”, republished in The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, 1862, OCLC 5091562, pages 7–8:

        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. (Australia, historical) A person who immigrated to Australia freely, as opposed to those transported as convicts, or such a transported convict who has regained his freedom.
   6. (US and Canada, historical) An independent fur trapper.

Synonyms

• (member in full standing of a medieval town): citizen, burgher, burgess

Antonyms

• (a free person): slave, bondsman, serf

Hyponyms

• (one who has become free): freedman

Derived terms

• freemanlike
• freeman's
• freemanship
• freeman's key
• freeman's quay
• Harry Freeman's

Translations

Anagrams

• enframe

English

Etymology

From freed +? man.

Noun

freedman (plural freedmen)

1. A man who has been released from a condition of slavery.
   • 2001, John C. Inscoe, Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation, "Introduction", page 7:

     Education was a high priority for Appalachian freedmen and freedwomen just as it was for blacks throughout the Reconstruction South.

Hypernyms

• ex-slave
• freeman

Derived terms

• freedmanship

Translations

See also

• freedwoman

Anagrams

• Federman, enframed