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

person who has been released from slavery

• 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
• Russian: вольноотпу́щенник (ru) m (volʹnootpúščennik)
• Swahili: huru

See also

• freedwoman

Anagrams

• Federman, enframed