Definitions for freeholds

freeholds free·hold

Spelling: [free-hohld]
IPA: /ˈfriˌhoʊld/

Freeholds is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 372 anagrams from letters in freeholds (deefhlors).

Definitions for freeholds

noun

  1. a form of tenure by which an estate is held in fee simple, fee tail, or for life.
  2. a town in E New Jersey: battle of Monmouth courthouse 1778.

adjective

  1. pertaining to, of the nature of, or held by freehold.

Origin of freeholds

1375-1425; late Middle English frehold (see free, hold1); translation of Anglo-French franc tenement (see fr

Examples for freeholds

The landholder in Virginia became then in effect a freehold tenant of the King.

We would do well to remember he doesn't possess the freehold.

All his wealth was now summed up in a freehold farm of twenty acres.

And he built the people a chapel on a bit of freehold he bought for them.

I suppose you wouldn't know whether the land about there was freehold?

Each swung a light cane, and each looked and talked as if the town were his freehold.

Such was the issue of the battle of freehold, or of Monmouth, as the Americans call it.

The State of New Jersey has abolished the freehold qualification.

His right to the land, in fact, was not freehold, but tenure by villein socage.

The squire greatly coveted the freehold of Queen Anne's Farm.

Word Value for freeholds
Scrable

15

Words with friends

15

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