noun. A member of the Free and Accepted Masons, an international fraternal and charitable organization with secret rites and signs.

noun. A member of a guild of skilled itinerant masons during the Middle Ages.

noun. A member of an order, fraternity, or brotherhood forming a secret society, or series of affiliated secret societies called lodges, now existing in all the countries of Europe, in many parts of America, and in other parts of the world where Europeans have settled in larger or smaller communities.

noun. One of an ancient and secret association or fraternity, said to have been at first composed of masons or builders in stone, but now consisting of persons who are united for social enjoyment and mutual assistance.

noun. A member of a guild of skilled itinerant masons during the Middle Ages.

noun. a member of a widespread secret fraternal order pledged to mutual assistance and brotherly love

"Quite recently W. Begemann [7] combats the opinion of Speth [8] as purely hypothetical, stating that the name freemason originally designated particularly skilled freestone-masons, needed at the time of the most magnificent evolution of Gothic architecture, and nothing else."