freeman /ˈfɹiː.mən/ noun7 •A free person •A person who is a citizen of a free country, as opposed to a subject of a tyranny or totalitarian dictatorship.There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. — 1836 •(historical) A person who is not a serf or slave. •(Australia, historical) A person who immigrated to Australia freely, as opposed to those transported as convicts, or such a transported convict who has regained his freedom. •A person who has received an honorary freedom of a city. •(historical) A burgher with full freedom of a city, as opposed to nobles, outsiders, bondsmen, and others. •(US, Canada) An independent furtaker. formsfreemen
