Freelander

English

Etymology

free +‎ land +‎ -er

Noun

Freelander (plural Freelanders)

1. A person or group seeking political or personal freedom through emigration to and settlement of open land.
   • 1922, Lewis Mumford, The Story of Utopias, page 28:

     ... or the Freelanders who dwelt within the imagination of a dry little Austrian economist, have had more influence upon the, lives of our contemporaries

   • 1995, Charles Pierce LeWarne, Utopias on Puget Sound, 1885-1915, page 120:

     Residents farmed and fished to provide family needs— Freelanders initiated no ... The Freelanders recognized that their vision must remain limited.

   • 2002, Donald F. Busky, Communism in history and theory, page 103:

     The Freelanders would instruct the black African natives in civilized ways,