Freetown

English Etymology From en free town, as being formerly settled by freed slaves. Pronunciation en /ˈfɹiːˌtaʊn/ UK en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Freetown.wav Southern England Proper noun en Q3780en capital city c/Sierra Leone. en 1960 April H. P. White The Railways of Sierra Leone Railway Magazine 237 Nearly 17,000 tons of this were accounted for by the haulage of chrome ore from the mine at Hangha to Freetown, a distance of 187½ miles, for shipment. en metonymy The Sierra Leonian government. en number of places c/USA: en ghost town co/Hale County s/Alabama. en CDP twp:Suf/Pershing co/Jackson County s/Indiana. en McDonoghville, Louisiana informal. en Atholton, Maryland. en town co/Bristol County s/Massachusetts. en town co/Cortland County s/New York. en hamlet town:pref/East Hampton co/Suffolk County s/New York. en ucomm co/Albemarle County s/Virginia. en freedmen's town co/Orange County s/Virginia. en village x/Antigua c/Antigua and Barbuda. en locality on x/Eleuthera c/Bahamas. Derived terms en East Freetown Translations capital of Sierra Leone Afrikaans: af Freetown Arabic: ar فْرِيتَاوْن m fritāwn Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 弗里敦 Fúlǐdūn Czech: cs Freetown m Danish: da Freetown Esperanto: eo Fritaŭno Hebrew: he פריטאון fritaun Italian: it Freetown f Japanese: ja フリータウン Furītaun Korean: ko ^프리타운 Lithuanian: lt Fritaunas m Polish: pl Freetown n Portuguese: pt Freetown f Russian: ru Фрита́ун m Spanish: es Freetown Ukrainian: uk Фріта́ун m Vietnamese: vi Phri-tao Anagrams en eefnortw forewent Afrikaans af:+ Proper noun af capital city c/Sierra Leone Freetown Derived terms af Freetowner af Freetowns Czech cs: Pronunciation Frítaun Proper noun m-in freetownský cs capital city c/Sierra Leone Freetown Declension m.sg Further reading Polish pl: Pronunciation Fritałn LL-Q809 (pol)-Jest Spoczko-Freetown.wav Free.town Proper noun n-in yes pl capital city c/Sierra Leone Freetown References Portuguese Proper noun f pt capital city c/Sierra Leone Freetown Slovak sk: Pronunciation frítaun Proper noun m-in Freetownu sk capital c/Sierra Leone Freetown References Spanish es: Pronunciation Fritaun Free.town Proper noun es capital city c/Sierra Leone Freetown