freedman

See also: Freedman

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

man who has been released from slavery

• Dutch: vrijgelatene m
• Finnish: vapautettu orja
• French: affranchi (fr) m
• German: Freigelassener m
• Greek:

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

• Icelandic: leysingi m, frelsingi m

• Italian: liberto (it) m, affrancato (it) m, emancipato (it) m
• Latin: lībertus m
• Polish: wyzwoleniec (pl) m
• Portuguese: liberto (pt) m
• Russian: вольноотпу́щенник (ru) m (volʹnootpúščennik)
• Spanish: liberto (es) m
• Swahili: huru

See also

• freedwoman

Anagrams

• Federman, enframed