The purpose of this paper is two fold: we study the behaviour of the forgetful functor from $𝕊$-modules to graded vector spaces in the context of algebras over an operad and derive the construction of combinatorial Hopf algebras. As a byproduct we obtain freeness and cofreeness results for those Hopf algebras.Let $𝒪$ denote the forgetful functor from $𝕊$-modules to graded vector spaces. Left modules over an operad $𝒫$ are treated as $𝒫$-algebras in the category of $𝕊$-modules. We generalize the results obtained...