Home › Words › F › freemanfreeman/ˈfɹiː.mən/freeman means A surname.freeman is pronounced /ˈfɹiː.mən/.Etymology* Proprialisation of freeman. From originating as a freeman (instead of a serf, indentured, or some other status) * free + man. A surname taken up by freed slaves.nameA surname.e.g.“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.” — 1886, Miss M. A. R. Tucker, “St. David's”, in Walford's Antiquarian: A Magazine & Bibliographical Review:A surname.; An English surname from Middle English.A surname.; A freed slave surname originating as an occupation.A male given name transferred from the surname.A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Early County, Georgia.A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Kane County, Illinois.A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Clay Township, Owen County, Indiana.A number of places in the United States:; A township in Clare County, Michigan.A number of places in the United States:; A township in Freeborn County, Minnesota.A number of places in the United States:; A city in Hutchinson County, South Dakota.A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Spokane County, Washington.A number of places in the United States:; A town in Crawford County, Wisconsin.A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in the town of Langlade, Langlade County, Wisconsin.nounA free person; A person who is not a serf or slave.A free person; A burgher with full freedom of a city, as opposed to nobles, outsiders, bondsmen, and others.A free person; A person who has received an honorary freedom of a city.A free person; A person who is a citizen of a free country, as opposed to a subject of a tyranny or totalitarian dictatorship.e.g.“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, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., “Poetry: A Metrical Essay”, republished in The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, 1862, OCLC 5091562, pages 7–8A free person; 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 free person; An independent fur trapper.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).