freeman 自由人（相對奴隸；英國史上也可指有城鎮公民權的人。當姓氏時寫 Freeman）｜字脈

1自由人（相對奴隸；英國史上也可指有城鎮公民權的人。當姓氏時寫 Freeman）
A freeman, in the old and careful sense, is someone who is not a slave — a person who belongs to themselves, not to another human being. English has used the word this way for a very long time; it comes from Old English frēomann, built like free + man. In history books you also meet it for a man who was not a , and in some British towns a freeman was a citizen with the right to trade or to take part in the town's business. Today, outside history class, people almost never say freeman to mean “not a slave”; they just say free, or a free person. Though actually, man here is the older English way of saying a person, not “an adult male only,” even if later ears hear it that way. You will still see Freeman as a family name — sometimes a name taken up by people who had been freed, and sometimes just from the old status-word turning into a surname.

組成From Old English frēomann, the same pieces as free + man. It grew up beside similar words in other Germanic languages.

原始詞典資料19 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Freemanname/ˈfɹiː.mən/

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A surname.
- It appears that Drs. Jones and Freeman account for the arch over the hagioscope at St. David's by saying, though without citing authorities, that there was a door there originally.
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A surname.
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A surname.
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A male given name transferred from the surname.
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A number of places in the United States:
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A number of places in the United States:
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另外 5 個記錄的用法

freemannoun/ˈfɹiː.mən/

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historicalA free person
- [Editor David W. Blight said:] Deeply in need of father figures and spiritual hope, and “religiously seeking knowledge,” as he recalled it, the slave boy [the young Frederick Douglass] turned to a religious black man, a freeman named Charles Lawson, who worked as a drayman for a rope maker and lived on Happy Alley in Fells Point. Frederick spent countless hours with Lawson in the drayman’s shack reading the bible aloud, singing hymns, and praying together. “I could teach him the letter, but he could teach me the spirit,” Douglass remembered. Throughout his life Douglass would teach his teachers and learn from them at the same time. From old Lawson he gained […] above all […] a belief in a benevolent and protective God, the faith that his “life was under the guidance of a wisdom higher than my own.”
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historicalA free person
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A free person
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A free person
- 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.
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historicalA free person
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historicalA free person

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