freeborn

See also: Freeborn

English

Etymology

From free +‎ born.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fɹiːˈbɔːn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹiˌbɔ(ə)n/
• Rhymes: -ɔːn

Adjective

freeborn (not comparable)

1. Born free rather than in bondage or as a slave
   • 1999, Robert Lacey, Danny Danziger, The Year 1000: What life was like at the turn of The First Millennium, London: Abacus, published 2000, page 143:

     Hunting in the year 1000 was still a democratic pastime. Every free-born Anglo-Saxon had the right to enter the forest and bring home game for the pot.

Anagrams

• born-free