freedman

See also: Freedman

English

Etymology

From freed +‎ man.

Pronunciation

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Noun

freedman (plural freedmen)

1. A man who has been released from a condition of slavery.
   • 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xv:

     The nomen belonged to all members of a gens and to all those attached to it (women, clients, and freedmen included).

   • 2001, John C. Inscoe, “Introduction”, in Appalachians and Race: The Mountain South from Slavery to Segregation, 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

man who has been released from slavery

• Arabic: مَعْتُوق m (maʕtūq)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: вольнаадпу́шчанік m (volʹnaadpúščanik), вольнаадпу́шчаніца f (volʹnaadpúščanica) (woman)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 自由民 (zh) (zìyóumín)

• Czech: propuštěnec m
• Dutch: vrijgelatene (nl) m
• Finnish: vapautettu orja
• French: affranchi (fr) m
• German: Freigelassener (de) m
• Greek: please add this translation if you can

  Ancient Greek: ἐξελεύθερος m (exeleútheros), ἀπελεύθερος (apeleútheros)

• Icelandic: leysingi m, frelsingi m
• Italian: liberto (it) m, affrancato (it) m, emancipato (it) m
• Latin: lībertus m, lībertīnus m
• Macedonian: ослободеник m (oslobodenik)
• Polish: wyzwoleniec (pl) m
• Portuguese: liberto (pt) m
• Russian: вольноотпу́щенник (ru) m (volʹnootpúščennik), вольноотпу́щенница (ru) f (volʹnootpúščennica) (woman)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ослобођѐнӣк m

  Latin: oslobođènīk (sh) m

• Slovak: prepustenec m
• Spanish: liberto (es) m
• Swahili: huru (sw)
• Ukrainian: вільновідпу́щеник m (vilʹnovidpúščenyk), вільновідпу́щениця f (vilʹnovidpúščenycja) (woman)

See also

• freedwoman

Anagrams

• Federman, enframed