Freetown

English

Etymology

From free +‎ town, as being formerly settled by freed slaves.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Proper noun

Freetown

2. The capital city of Sierra Leone.

Translations

capital of Sierra Leone

• Afrikaans: Freetown
• Arabic: فْرِيتَاوْن m (fritāwn)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 弗裡敦 / 弗里敦 (zh) (Fúlǐdūn)

• Czech: Freetown m
• Danish: Freetown
• Esperanto: Fritaŭno (eo)
• Hebrew: פריטאון (fritaun)
• Italian: Freetown f
• Japanese: フリータウン (ja) (Furītaun)
• Korean: 프리타운 (Peuritaun)
• Lithuanian: Fritaunas m
• Polish: Freetown (pl) n
• Portuguese: Freetown (pt) f
• Russian: Фрита́ун (ru) m (Fritáun)
• Spanish: Freetown (es)
• Ukrainian: Фріта́ун m (Fritáun)
• Vietnamese: Phri-tao

Anagrams

• forewent

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Freetown

1. Freetown (the capital city of Sierra Leone)

Derived terms

• Freetowner
• Freetowns

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfriːtau̯n]

Proper noun

Freetown m inan (relational adjective freetownský)

1. Freetown (the capital city of Sierra Leone)

Declension

Declension of Freetown (sg-only hard masculine inanimate)

	singular
nominative	Freetown
genitive	Freetownu
dative	Freetownu
accusative	Freetown
vocative	Freetowne
locative	Freetownu
instrumental	Freetownem

Further reading

• “Freetown”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfri.tawn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -itawn
• Syllabification: Free‧town

Proper noun

Freetown n inan (indeclinable)

1. Freetown (the capital city of Sierra Leone)

References

• Freetown in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Proper noun

Freetown f

1. Freetown (the capital city of Sierra Leone)

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfriːtaun]

Proper noun

Freetown m inan (genitive singular Freetownu)

1. Freetown (the capital of Sierra Leone)

References

• “Freetown”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɾitaun/ [ˈfɾi.t̪ãũn]
• Rhymes: -itaun

Proper noun

Freetown ?

1. Freetown (the capital city of Sierra Leone)