Definitions for freedwoman

freedwoman freed·wom·an

Spelling: [freed-woo m-uh n]
IPA: /ˈfridˌwʊm ən/

Freedwoman is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 616 anagrams from letters in freedwoman (adeefmnorw).

Definitions for freedwoman

noun

  1. a woman who has been freed from slavery.

Origin of freedwoman

An Americanism dating back to 1865-70; freed + woman

Examples for freedwoman

Horace is the only one who celebrated a freedwoman in some of his odes.

M. Abudius Luminaris, who raises this monument, had married his own freedwoman; “Patronus idemque conjux.”

But with a gesture of savage pride the freedwoman tore herself away from Nola.

As my freedwoman, you will, of course, bear my name with your own.

She wrote a few words also, committing care over Lygia to Nero's freedwoman, Acte.

Some measure of the situation may be taken from what befell when the freedwoman Claudia Acte became the mistress of Nero.

Thou art no more a slave, but the freedwoman of the Empress Valeria.

A freedwoman had roused superstitious fear in the heart of a daughter of the Cæsars!

The chastity of a slave or a freedwoman or even a foreigner, was of no value.

Many questions were needed to draw this much from the freedwoman, for she spoke but little.

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