ALL meanings of free state
free state
F f - noun free state US state prohibiting slavery 1
- noun free state U.S. History. (before the Civil War) a state in which slavery was prohibited. 1
- noun free state Irish Free State. 1
- noun free state 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) 0
- noun free state (before the Civil War) any state prohibiting slavery 0
- noun free state any state of the U.S. in which slavery was forbidden before the Civil War 0
- noun free state 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. 0
- noun free state 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. 0
- noun free state An independent or autonomous political entity whose formal status and relationship to other states is undefined. 0
- noun free state 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. 0
- noun free state (engineering) A condition of not being supported or constrained by outside forces. 0
- noun free state (US, historical) Prior to the American Civil War, any of the states in which the owning of slaves was not legal. 0