freewoman
noun
freewoman is a noun meaning “A woman who is not a serf or slave” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-E-E-W-O-M-A-N, and it appears about once in every 83 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of freewoman is freewomen.
What does freewoman mean?
noun
- 1
A woman who is not a serf or slave.
The Cambridge Medieval History Series And for some offences, e.g. marrying a freewoman, he [the serf] was liable by statute, like a slave, to chains or stripes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of freewoman
- freewomen plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is freewoman?
Freewoman appears about once in every 83 million words in written English, the 290,185th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does freewoman come from?
From free + woman.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).