Library / English Dictionary

FREEHOLDER

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The owner of a freehold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("freeholder" is a kind of...):

landholder; landowner; property owner (a holder or proprietor of land)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "freeholder"):

yeoman (in former times was free and cultivated his own land)

Derivation:

freehold (tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life)

freehold (an estate held in fee simple or for life)

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