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Free State

–noun

1.	U.S. History. (before the Civil War) a state in which slavery was prohibited.

2.	Irish Free State.

Origin:
1640–50

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Free State (frē)

Any state of the Union in which slavery was illegal before the Civil War.
The Irish Free State.
The Congo Free State.
The Orange Free State.

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Free State

province, east-central Republic of South Africa. Under the name Orange Free State, it was originally a Boer state and then (from 1910) one of the traditional provinces of South Africa; it was renamed Free State in 1995. Free State is bordered on the north by North-West, Gauteng, and Mpumalanga provinces, on the east by KwaZulu-Natal province and the independent state of Lesotho, on the south by Eastern Cape province, and on the west by Northern Cape province. The provincial capital, Bloemfontein, is also the national judicial capital

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