FREEMASON

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

1. a member of a widespread secret fraternal order pledged to mutual assistance and brotherly love

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

• FREEMASON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a widespread secret fraternal order pledged to mutual assistance and brotherly love

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Freemason; Mason

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

brother (a male person who is a fellow member (of a fraternity or religion or other group))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Freemason"):

Knight Templar (a man who belongs to a Masonic order in the United States)

Holonyms ("Freemason" is a member of...):

Freemasonry; Masonry (Freemasons collectively)

 Context examples 

You mentioned your name, as if I should recognize it, but I assure you that, beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a Freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)