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say it: FREED-muhn
friedman is a noun meaning "United States economist noted as a proponent of monetarism and for his opposition to government intervention in the economy (born in 1912)". It is pronounced /ˈfɹidmən/ — FREED-muhn. It carries one recorded sense.
United States economist noted as a proponent of monetarism and for his opposition to government intervention in the economy (born in 1912)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for friedman come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.