Freelander
nounEtymology From free + land + -er.
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A person or group seeking political or personal freedom through emigration to and settlement of open land.
- ... or the Freelanders who dwelt within the imagination of a dry little Austrian economist, have had more influence upon the, lives of our contemporaries1922, Lewis Mumford, The Story of Utopias, page 28:
- Residents farmed and fished to provide family needs— Freelanders initiated no ... The Freelanders recognized that their vision must remain limited.1995, Charles Pierce LeWarne, Utopias on Puget Sound, 1885-1915, page 120:
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- The Freelanders would instruct the black African natives in civilized ways,2002, Donald F. Busky, Communism in history and theory, page 103: