freeman

Noun

1. A free person, particularly:

   1. (usually historical) A person who is not a serf or slave.

   2. (historical) A burgher with full freedom of a city, as opposed to nobles, outsiders, bondsmen, and others.

   3. A person who has received an honorary freedom of a city.

   4. (usually as two words) A person who is a citizen of a free country, as opposed to a subject of a tyranny or totalitarian dictatorship.

      • There breathes no being but has some pretence / To that fine instinct called poetic sense; […] / The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand / The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. - 1836, Oliver Wendell Holmes,...

   5. (Australia, historical) A person who immigrated to Australia freely, as opposed to those transported as convicts, or such a transported convict who has regained his freedom.

   6. (US and Canada, historical) An independent fur trapper.