Word.ws English Dictionary

freehold

freehold adjective: of a tenure or estate in land, held in fee simple absolute in possession by a proprietor; granted out of the allodial title, liable to determine only on escheat.

Adjective

freehold (not comparable)

  1. Of a tenure or estate in land, held in fee simple absolute in possession by a proprietor; granted out of the allodial title, liable to determine only on escheat.

Noun

freehold (countable and uncountable, plural freeholds)

  1. Freehold tenure.
  2. Real property held by a tenure of this type.

Verb

freehold (third-person singular simple present freeholds, present participle freeholding, simple past and past participle freeholded)

  1. To dispense property in this way.

Proper noun capitalized: Freehold

Freehold

  1. An urban area of Werneth, Oldham, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9104).
  2. A suburb of Lancaster, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4861).
  3. A borough, the county seat of Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States; properly, Freehold Borough.
  4. A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States; properly, Freehold Township.
  5. A hamlet in the town of Greenville, Greene County, New York, United States.
  6. A township in Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States.

freehold meaning in Tamil

freehold in Tamil

இறையிலி, வரிவிதிக்கப்படாத நிலம், இறையிலி நிலம்

Forms of freehold

Noun
pluralfreeholds
Verb
third-person singular presentfreeholds
present participlefreeholding
past participlefreeholded
pastfreeholded

Words formed from freehold

Phrases with freehold

Questions about freehold

What does freehold mean?
Freehold means of a tenure or estate in land, held in fee simple absolute in possession by a proprietor; granted out of the allodial title, liable to determine only on escheat.
What is freehold in Tamil?
Freehold in Tamil is இறையிலி, வரிவிதிக்கப்படாத நிலம், இறையிலி நிலம். See Freehold meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is freehold?
Freehold can be an adjective, a noun, a verb or a proper noun.

Words near freehold in the dictionary

  1. freehands
  2. freehanging
  3. freehearted
  4. freeheartedly
  5. freeheartedness
  6. freehold
  7. Freehold Borough
  8. freeholded
  9. freeholder
  10. freeholders
  11. freeholdership

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: freehold (page history and authors); Freehold (page history and authors); freehold (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-freehold.wav.

Cite this entry: “freehold.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/freehold. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.