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A free person, particularly:
puhekieltä A person who is not a serf or slave.
puhekieltä A burgher with full freedom of the city|freedom of a city, as opposed to nobles, outsiders, bondsmen, and others.
An honorary freeman: a person who has received an honorary freedom of the city|freedom of a city.
puhekieltä A person who is a citizen of a free country, as opposed to a subject of a tyranny or totalitarian dictatorship.
1836, (w), “Poetry: A Metrical Essay”, republished in The Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Boston, Mass.: (w), 1862, (w) http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5091562 5091562, https://books.google.com/books?id=UF5AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA8 pages 7–8:
- 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.
puhekieltä A person who immigrated to Australia freely, as opposed to those transported as convicts, or such a transported convict who has regained his freedom.
puhekieltä An independent fur trapper.
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