Definitions for FREE STATE
free state

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Maryland, Old Line State, Free State, MDnoun

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

2. free statenoun

   any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War

3. Free State, Orange Free Statenoun

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

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1. free statenoun

   A political entity whose political status is less than that of a fully sovereign nation-state, as with the former Congo Free State and the former Irish Free State.

2. free statenoun

   A Federal state, with allegiance to a larger entity, as currently with Germany, and earlier, the relationship between the states of the Holy Roman Empire and the Emperor, and later, the states of the German Empire under the Hohenzollerns.

3. free statenoun

   An independent or autonomous political entity whose formal status and relationship to other states is undefined.

4. free statenoun

   An approximate synonym for republic or commonwealth, as with the former Orange Free State, and especially as used for the current United Kingdom to refer to the Commonwealth period under Cromwell.

5. Etymology: Probably a calque from German Freistaat

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1. Free State

   The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans were abolished and included into the provinces of South Africa. It is also the only one of the former provinces of South Africa not to undergo border changes, excluding the incorporation of Bantustans.

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1. free state

   A state or country unencumbered by loyalty, religion, blood or finances to a foreign or separatist government, country, region or political group.

   Because New York owed Canada millions for building the Erie Canal, they declared that they were still a free state and owed them no loyalty.

   
   

   Submitted by anonymous on July 24, 2019  

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   • South Africa
   • Union
   • United States
   • Province

How to pronounce FREE STATE?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of FREE STATE in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of FREE STATE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of FREE STATE in a Sentence

1. Tiberius:

   In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

2. Francis Suarez:

   There are a lot of people who have gravitated towards the governor's leadership and the fact that the economy's doing extremely well in Make America Florida, there are many people who like his Covid policies and the free state of Make America Florida. But there's an eternity until the presidential election of 2024 and there will be a lot of things that will shake out between now and then.

3. Thomas Jefferson:

   Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

4. U. S. Constitution:

   A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

5. Kamilah Moore:

   The dominant narrative is that because California was a free state, it had nothing to do with slavery, but we've invited people to give expert and personal testimonies on how California was actually complicit in maintaining the institution of slavery, including during the Gold Rush, when Southern plantation owners would take enslaved people to California to mine for gold, despite what the state's constitution said.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=FREE STATE
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Free_State
3. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=FREE STATE