Definition of "freeholds" [freeholds]

• Plural form of freehold. (noun)

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• "The proprietors of small freeholds, that is, the freemen of the middle class, had fallen, in consequence of the tyranny of the nobles, into a worse condition than that of the tenants and serfs."
• "The trustees of the colony, appointed under the royal charter, made a strict agrarian law, which divided the original town into two hundred and forty "freeholds;" the town land covered twenty-four square miles, every forty houses (each house being located on tracts of land of exactly the same size) making a ward; each ward had a constable, and under him were four tithing-men."
• "The billionaire US property mogul owns the freeholds to most stores in the Wal-Mart chain and his offer document makes great play of how he has combined "his real-estate acumen and passion for sports"."