FREEHOLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does freehold mean? 

• FREEHOLD (noun)
  The noun FREEHOLD has 2 senses:

1. an estate held in fee simple or for life

2. tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life

  Familiarity information: FREEHOLD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FREEHOLD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An estate held in fee simple or for life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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

acres; demesne; estate; land; landed estate (extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use)

Derivation:

freeholder (the owner of a freehold)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

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

land tenure; tenure (the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands)

Derivation:

freeholder (the owner of a freehold)

 Context examples 

I grant you, that any of them but Charles would be a very shocking match for Henrietta, and indeed it could not be; he is the only one that could be possible; but he is a very good-natured, good sort of a fellow; and whenever Winthrop comes into his hands, he will make a different sort of place of it, and live in a very different sort of way; and with that property, he will never be a contemptible man—good, freehold property.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Next to him sat Hordle John, and beside him three other rough unkempt fellows with tangled beards and matted hair—free laborers from the adjoining farms, where small patches of freehold property had been suffered to remain scattered about in the heart of the royal demesne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She could not tell Miss Crawford that those woods belonged to Sotherton, she could not carelessly observe that she believed that it was now all Mr. Rushworth's property on each side of the road, without elation of heart; and it was a pleasure to increase with their approach to the capital freehold mansion, and ancient manorial residence of the family, with all its rights of court-leet and court-baron.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)