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Freethinker

Definition: Freethinker

Freethinker

Noun

1. A person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "freethinker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1824. (references)


Specialty Definitions: Freethinker

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Freethinker One who thinks unbiassed by revelation or ecclesiastical canons, as deists and atheists.
"Atheist is an old-fashioned word. I am a freethinker." - Addison. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Freethinker

Synonym: deist (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Freethinker

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Irreligion

Atheist, skeptic, unbeliever, deist, infidel, pyrrhonist; giaour, heathen, alien, gentile, Nazarene; espri fort, freethinker, latitudinarian, rationalist; materialist, positivist, nihilist, agnostic, somatist, theophobist.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: Freethinker

DomainTitle

Books

  • Gerald Massey: Chartist, Poet, Radical, and Freethinker (reference)

  • J.A. Hobson After Fifty Years: Freethinker of the Social Sciences (reference)

  • Some Reasons Why I Am a Freethinker (reference)

  • Vision and Realism: A Hundred Years of the Freethinker (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Freethinker

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

freethinker

6

antichristan atheist freethinker

2
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Modern Translation: Freethinker

Language Translations for "freethinker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

свободомислещ (advanced, liberal, liberal-minded, tolerant), атеист (atheist, infidel, pagan). (various references)

   

German

  

Freidenkender. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ελευθεριόφρων (latitudinarian). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szabadgondolkodó (agnostic, esprit-fort, free thinker, free-thinker, libertine). (various references)

   

Italian

  

razionalista (rationalist), libero pensatore (free thinker). (various references)

   

Manx

  

seyr-inchynagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eethinkerfray

   

Russian 

  

вольнодумец (free-thinker, libertine). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

slobodoumnik (liberal). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pensador libre, librepensador. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

özgür düşünceli kimse (latitudinarian). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

вільнодумець (libertine), атеїст (atheist, nothing, nothingarian). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Freethinker

Derivations

Words beginning with "freethinker": freethinkers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Freethinker"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "freethinker" (pronounced frē"thi'ngker)
3-ng k eranchor, banker, bunker, canker, clunker, conquer, danker, drinker, Dunker, hanker, hunker, junker, linker, pinker, plunker, rancor, ranker, reconquer, sinker, supertanker, tanker, thinker, tinker, winker, yonker, younker.

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Anagrams: Freethinker

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-e-f-h-i-k-n-r-r-t"

-2 letters: interfere, rethinker.

-3 letters: referent, tinkerer.

-4 letters: enterer, errhine, fernier, ferrite, heftier, kernite, neither, reefier, reekier, reenter, refiner, reinter, rentier, rethink, retiree, teenier, terreen, terrene, terrine, therein, thinker.

-5 letters: eerier, either, entire, entree, eterne, ethene, ferine, ferret, hefter, heifer, herein, hinter, inhere, keener, ketene, knifer, nether, reefer, reeker, refine, refire, rehire, reknit, renter, retene, retine.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-e-f-h-i-k-n-r-r-t"
 

+1 letter: freethinkers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Freethinker


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Freethinker"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводбългарски, български език, българин, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definitionгермански, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, "ερμανός, német, tedesco, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, немецкий, germanski, alemán, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηгръцки език, гръцки, грък, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, Greagish, Greagagh, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításунгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, Ungar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, macarca, macar, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneиталиански език, италиански, италианец, italienisch, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, Iddaalish, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка

Manx

fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baghtmanx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, man adası, man dili, менський, менський діалект

Russian

словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещениеруски език, руски, руснак, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський

Serbo-Croatian

leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenjeserbokroatisch, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónиспански език, испански, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, spagnolo, Spaainish, Spaainagh, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümeтурски език, турски, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова

Ukrainian

словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщенняукраинец, украински език, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, ucraino, Ookraanagh, Ookraanish, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationанглийски език, английски, англичаните, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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