freemasonry

See also: Freemasonry

English

Etymology

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English freemason

Middle English -re,-ri,-rie,-ry,-rye

English -ry

English freemasonry

From freemason + -ry.

Pronunciation

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Noun

freemasonry (countable and uncountable, plural freemasonries)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Freemasonry: the institutions, precepts, and rites of the Freemasons.
2. (figuratively) Fellowship and sympathy among a number of people.
3. (figuratively) Strange customs which resemble those of Freemasons.

Translations

institutions, rites, etc. of the Freemasons — see Freemasonry

fellowship and sympathy

• Arabic: مَاسُونِيَّة f (māsūniyya)
• Armenian: մասոնություն (masonutʻyun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 同病相憐 / 同病相怜 (zh) (tóngbìngxiānglián), 惺惺相惜 (zh) (xīngxīngxiāngxī), 意氣相投 / 意气相投 (zh) (yìqìxiāngtóu)

• Dutch: vrijmetselarij (nl) f
• Finnish: veljeys (fi)
• French: franc-maçonnerie (fr) f
• Georgian: მასონობა (masonoba)
• German: Freimaurerei (de) f
• Greek: ελευθεροτεκτονισμός (el) m (eleftherotektonismós)
• Hebrew: הבונים החופשיים
• Hungarian: bajtársiasság (hu), összetartás (hu)
• Japanese: フリーメーソン (furī mēson)
• Korean: 프리메이슨 (peurimeiseun)
• Portuguese: maçonaria (pt) f
• Russian: масо́нство (ru) n (masónstvo), франкмасо́нство (ru) n (frankmasónstvo)

Further reading

• “freemasonry”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “freemasonry”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.