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Definition of Freetown

1. Noun. Port city and the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone.

Definition of Freetown

1. Proper noun. The capital city of Sierra Leone ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Freetown

Literary usage of Freetown

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1868)
"Joshua, at freetown, Sept. 5th, 1808, aged 58 years, 11 mos. 22 days. A lineal descendant of Henry Howland, of Duxbury, one of the original proprietors of ..."

2. Education in Africa: A Study of West, South, and Equatorial Africa by the by Thomas Jesse Jones (1922)
"They were taken from slave ships on their way to America by British war vessels and landed at freetown. The uneducated Creoles speak a strange corruption of ..."

3. History of the Colonies of the British Empire ...: From the Official Records by Robert Montgomery Martin (1843)
"And did further thereby give, grant and appoint, that there should be within the said town of freetown a body politic and corporate, by the name and style ..."

4. A Transformed Colony by Thomas Joshua Alldridge (1910)
"CHAPTER VI THE FOOD SUPPLY OF freetown THE population of freetown has increased very greatly of late years; there are now many more Europeans than formerly, ..."

5. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"There Is a trunk Une network of 951 miles of telephone and telegraph routes connecting freetown with most of the more important centres and towns. ..."

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