name
Meaning 1
A surname.
A German and Jewish surname from German.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
freedman
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name
Meaning 2
A surname.
Alternative form of Friedman.
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Usage: alt-of, alternative
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name
Meaning 3
A surname.
A freed slave surname originating as an occupation.
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noun
Meaning 4
A man who has been released from a condition of slavery.
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noun
Meaning 5
a person who has been freed from slavery
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: freedwoman
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: freeman, freewoman
History
Etymology
* Anglicization of German Friedmann * Corruption of Friedman * freed + man. A surname taken up by freed slaves.
From freed + man.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مَعْتُوق (maʕtūq) — man who has been released from slavery
- Belarusian: вольнаадпу́шчанік (volʹnaadpúščanik) — man who has been released from slavery
- Belarusian: вольнаадпу́шчаніца (volʹnaadpúščanica) — man who has been released from slavery
- Chinese Mandarin: 自由民 (zìyóumín) — man who has been released from slavery
- Czech: propuštěnec — man who has been released from slavery
- Dutch: vrijgelatene — man who has been released from slavery
- Finnish: vapautettu orja — man who has been released from slavery
- French: affranchi — man who has been released from slavery
- German: Freigelassener — man who has been released from slavery
- Ancient Greek: ἐξελεύθερος (exeleútheros) — man who has been released from slavery
- Ancient Greek: ἀπελεύθερος (apeleútheros) — man who has been released from slavery
- Icelandic: leysingi — man who has been released from slavery
- Icelandic: frelsingi — man who has been released from slavery
- Italian: liberto — man who has been released from slavery
- Italian: affrancato — man who has been released from slavery
- Italian: emancipato — man who has been released from slavery
- Latin: lībertus — man who has been released from slavery
- Latin: lībertīnus — man who has been released from slavery
- Macedonian: ослободеник (oslobodenik) — man who has been released from slavery
- Polish: wyzwoleniec — man who has been released from slavery
- Portuguese: liberto — man who has been released from slavery
- Russian: вольноотпу́щенник (volʹnootpúščennik) — man who has been released from slavery
- Russian: вольноотпу́щенница (volʹnootpúščennica) — man who has been released from slavery
- Serbo-Croatian: ослобођѐнӣк — man who has been released from slavery
- Serbo-Croatian: oslobođènīk — man who has been released from slavery
- Slovak: prepustenec — man who has been released from slavery
- Spanish: liberto — man who has been released from slavery
- Swahili: huru — man who has been released from slavery
- Ukrainian: вільновідпу́щеник (vilʹnovidpúščenyk) — man who has been released from slavery
- Ukrainian: вільновідпу́щениця (vilʹnovidpúščenycja) — man who has been released from slavery
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