Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A medieval English freeholder of nonnoble birth holding extensive property.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A freeman.
- noun Formerly, in England, a freeholder; a yeoman; originally, a person distinguished from the common freeholder by the extent of his possessions, and by his eligibility to the dignities of sheriff, knight of the shire, etc.; in later times, a small landholder.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An English freeholder, or substantial householder.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete except historical A
freeholder , especially as belonging to a class oflandowners in the 14th and 15th century ranking below thegentry .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun United States historian noted for studies of Black American history (born in 1915)
- noun a landowner (14th and 15th centuries) who was free but not of noble birth
- noun printer whose success as an author led him to take up politics; he helped draw up the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution; he played a major role in the American Revolution and negotiated French support for the colonists; as a scientist he is remembered particularly for his research in electricity (1706-1790)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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