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Webster 1913 Edition

Freemasonry

Free′maˊson-ry

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Noun.

The institutions or the practices of freemasons.

Definition 2024

Freemasonry

Freemasonry

See also: freemasonry

English

Proper noun

Freemasonry

The institutions, precepts, and rites of the Freemasons

Translations

institutions and ways of the Freemasons

Chinese:
Mandarin:
Dutch: vrijmetselarij (nl) f
Esperanto: framasonismo
Finnish: vapaamuurarius
French: franc-maçonnerie (fr)
German: Freimaurerei (de) f
Greek: ελευθεροτεκτονισμός (el) m ‎(eleftherotektonismós)

Italian: massoneria (it) f, frammassoneria f
Japanese: フリーメイソンリー ‎(furīmeisonrī)
Persian: فراماسونری (fa) ‎(ferâmâsoneri)
Portuguese: maçonaria (pt) f, francomaçonaria
Russian: франкмасо́нство (ru) n ‎(frankmasónstvo), масо́нство (ru) n ‎(masónstvo)
Slovak: slobodomurárstvo n

Derived terms

Co-Freemasonry

freemasonry

freemasonry

See also: Freemasonry

English

Noun

freemasonry ‎(countable and uncountable, plural freemasonries)

Fellowship and sympathy among a number of people.
The institutions, precepts, and rites of the Freemasons.
Strange customs which resemble those of Freemasons.

Translations

fellowship and sympathy

Arabic: مَاسُونِيَّة f ‎(māsūniyya)
Armenian: մասոնություն ‎(masonutʿyun)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 同病相憐 (zh), 同病相怜 (zh) ‎(tóngbìngxiānglián), 惺惺相惜 (zh) ‎(xīngxīngxiāngxī), 意氣相投 (zh), 意气相投 (zh) ‎(yìqìxiāngtóu)
Finnish: veljeys (fi)
French: franc-maçonnerie (fr) f
Georgian: მასონობა ‎(masonoba)
German: Freimaurerei (de) f

Greek: ελευθεροτεκτονισμός (el) m ‎(eleftherotektonismós)
Hebrew: הבונים החופשיים
Japanese: フリーメーソン ‎(furī mēson)
Korean: 프리메이슨 ‎(peurimeiseun)
Portuguese: maçonaria (pt) f
Russian: масо́нство (ru) n ‎(masónstvo), франкмасо́нство (ru) n ‎(frankmasónstvo)

institutions, rites, etc. of the Freemasons