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freedman

/freed-muhn/US // ˈfrid mən //UK // (ˈfriːdˌmæn) //

自由人,自由职业者,自由民

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural freed·men.

    • : a man who has been freed from slavery.

Examples

  • The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes, and work for wages.

  • In Walton County, a rural community in Georgia, the Ku Klux Klan terrorized freedmen after the war.

  • Freedman has written widely not only on military history, but on contemporary military strategy in journals and magazines as well.

  • Strategy, as Freedman describes his admittedly diffuse and multifaceted subject, is both a way of thinking and a way of doing.

  • Pete Freedman reports on the incredibly well-armed, but peaceful, gathering.

  • Columbia professor Samuel G. Freedman offers his list of classic books on the civil-rights movement.

  • "I would like to think [this issue] has nothing to do with transgender," says Freedman.

  • Of course the master might disregard the regular form and give the freedman any name he pleased.

  • The patron assisted the freedman in business, often supplying the means with which he was to make a start in his new life.

  • The new-made freedman set proudly on his head the cap of liberty (pilleus), often seen on Roman coins (Fig. 34).

  • He became the guardian of the freedman's children, or if no heirs were left, he himself inherited the property.

  • Licinius was another wealthy freedman belonging to Augustus.