freeborn
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8.8
- adjective
- /ˈfriːbɔrn/
- Archaic
- I've called you here as freeborn Englishmen, loyal to our king.
- freeborn citizen
- freeborn woman
Examples
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The first day we walked through farmland—rolling hills dotted by freeborn steaders' houses and byres.
Fiction book (1993) -
Historically, three or four social classes can be identified: high-ranking titleholders and other titleholders; freeborn commoners without rights to hereditary names; and slaves, those born to slaves, and people captured during wars.
Academic text (2007) -
The people who do it, two by two, are freeborn members of his clan, not slaves.
Academic text (1995) -
When he was nineteen, Arthur escaped and married Mary, a freeborn woman.
Academic text (2002) -
She said Philadelphia was the best city for freed slaves or freeborn Africans.
Fiction book (2002) -
She may have been a slave, but since no ancient writer mentions her or points out that she had a different or slave origin, it is much more likely that she was, like the Ptolemies themselves, a freeborn Macedonian Greek.
Academic text (1995) -
Like the iloi, ordinary women (that is, nonroyal, freeborn women) could be transformed by deeds and remembered in oral tradition, local cults, and masquerades.
Academic text (1993) -
He was proud to be a freeborn citizen, enjoying the rights and freedoms that came with it.
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In ancient societies, many celebrated their freeborn status, as it distinguished them from those born into servitude.
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Being a freeborn individual in a democracy allows one to participate fully in civic duties.
Synonyms
660
1.0
Able to live without being owned or controlled by other people
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Freeborn comes from the two simple words free ('not a slave') and born ('brought into the world'), and it was used for people who were 'born free' rather than into slavery. So, freeborn still means someone who was born free today.