FREEDMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does freedman mean? 

• FREEDMAN (noun)
  The noun FREEDMAN has 1 sense:

1. a person who has been freed from slavery

  Familiarity information: FREEDMAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FREEDMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who has been freed from slavery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

freedman; freedwoman

Hypernyms ("freedman" is a kind of...):

freeman; freewoman (a person who is not a serf or a slave)

 Context examples 

It's for the freedmen as well as the Chesters, and I think it very kind of them to let me share the labor and the fun.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)