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Freelander en · NOUN

Etymology

From free + land + -er.

Meanings

1. A person or group seeking political or personal freedom through emigration to and settlement of open land.
   • The Freelanders would instruct the black African natives in civilized ways, 2002, Donald F. Busky, Communism in history and theory, page 103:
   • Residents farmed and fished to provide family needs— Freelanders initiated no ... The Freelanders recognized that their vision must remain limited. 1995, Charles Pierce LeWarne, Utopias on Puget Sound, 1885-1915, page 120:
   • ... or the Freelanders who dwelt within the imagination of a dry little Austrian economist, have had more influence upon the, lives of our contemporaries 1922, Lewis Mumford, The Story of Utopias, page 28:

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