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Today it means: A person who holds tenure by freehold Full definition →

Middle English free holder

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Middle English · inherited fromfree holder
English todayfreeholder

From Middle English free holder, freholdere, equivalent to freehold + -er. Compare Old Northern French fraunc tenaunt.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.