free state

Definition of Free State in English :

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Noun

1. free state, maryland, md, old line state

a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies

2. free state

any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War

3. free state, orange free state

a province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997

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WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Free State

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noun

1.

a province of central South Africa; replaced the former province of Orange Free State in 1994: gold and uranium mining. Capital: Bloemfontein. Pop: 2 745 590 (2011 est). Area: 129 480 sq km (49 992 sq miles)

2. US history

(before the Civil War) any state prohibiting slavery

3. short for Irish Free State

Free State

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US

any state of the U.S. in which slavery was forbidden before the Civil War

Free State

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1. See Congo.

2. See Ireland.

3. A province and historical region of east-central South Africa. European settlement of the area began early in the 1800s and accelerated with an influx of Boer farmers after 1835. Great Britain annexed the region in 1848 and granted it independence as the Orange Free State in 1854. In 1900, during the Boer War, Great Britain once again annexed the territory, this time as the Orange River Colony. The renamed Orange Free State formed an independent government in 1907 and became a founding province of South Africa in 1910, being renamed again to Free State in 1995.

n.

Any of the states in the Union in which slavery was illegal before the Civil War.

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