Dictionary

freedman en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• [ˈfɹiːdmæn]
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Etymology

From freed + man.

Meanings

1. A man who has been released from a condition of slavery.
   • The nomen belonged to all members of a gens and to all those attached to it (women, clients, and freedmen included). 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xv:
   • Education was a high priority for Appalachian freedmen and freedwomen just as it was for blacks throughout the Reconstruction South. 2001, John C. Inscoe, “Introduction”, in Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation, page 7:

Forms

Deriveds

freedmanship

Hypernyms

freeman · ex-slave

Relateds

freedwoman

Translations (30)

grc ἀπελεύθερος (man who has been released from slavery) · cs propuštěnec (man who has been released from slavery) · de Freigelassener (man who has been released from slavery) · is leysingi (man who has been released from slavery) · sk prepustenec (man who has been released from slavery) · mk ослободеник (man who has been released from slavery) · be вольнаадпу́шчанік (man who has been released from slavery) · uk вільновідпу́щениця (man who has been released from slavery) · sh ослобођѐнӣк (man who has been released from slavery) · nl vrijgelatene (man who has been released from slavery) · be вольнаадпу́шчаніца (man who has been released from slavery) · uk вільновідпу́щеник (man who has been released from slavery) · it affrancato (man who has been released from slavery) · pl wyzwoleniec (man who has been released from slavery) · pt liberto (man who has been released from slavery) · it liberto (man who has been released from slavery) · ar مَعْتُوق (man who has been released from slavery) · cmn 自由民 (man who has been released from slavery) · fi vapautettu orja (man who has been released from slavery) · la lībertīnus (man who has been released from slavery) · sh oslobođènīk (man who has been released from slavery) · is frelsingi (man who has been released from slavery) · fr affranchi (man who has been released from slavery) · ru вольноотпу́щенник (man who has been released from slavery) · es liberto (man who has been released from slavery) · sw huru (man who has been released from slavery) · ru вольноотпу́щенница (man who has been released from slavery) · la lībertus (man who has been released from slavery) · grc ἐξελεύθερος (man who has been released from slavery) · it emancipato (man who has been released from slavery)