catflap.org Online Dictionary Query

  Free State
       n 1: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn:
            Maryland, Old Line State, MD]
       2: any state prohibiting slavery prior to the Civil War [ant: slave
          state]
       3: a province in central South Africa that was colonized by the
          Boers; named Free State in 1997 [syn: Orange Free State]

  free state
     n.
     1 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 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 (w Holy Roman Emperor Emperor), and later, the
  states of the (w: German Empire) under the (w House of Hohenzollern
  Hohenzollerns).
     3 An independent or autonomous political entity whose formal status
  and relationship to other states is undefined.
     4 A 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
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%20Cromwell.
     5 (lb en engineering) A condition of not being supported or
  constrained by outside forces.
     6 (lb en US historical) Before the American Civil War, any of the
  states in which the owning of slaves was not legal.
     7 (lb en grammar) A noun form in Afroasiatic languages contrasting
  with the (l en construct state) by the noun not being (l en dependent)
  {q|more commonly called (l en absolute state), or (l en indeterminate
  state) if the specific language contrasts a (l en determinate state)
  with the construct state}.

  Free State
     n.
     1 (place en province c/South Africa capital=Bloemfontein), formerly
  Orange Free State.
     2 (n-g: A nickname for Maryland.)
     3 (lb en Ireland UK historical) The Irish Free State.
     4 (lb en Ireland) Irish republican term for the present-day Republic
  of Ireland.
     n.
     (alternative case form of en free state)

  free state
     n.
     1 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 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 (w Holy Roman Emperor Emperor), and later, the
  states of the (w: German Empire) under the (w House of Hohenzollern
  Hohenzollerns).
     3 An independent or autonomous political entity whose formal status
  and relationship to other states is undefined.
     4 A 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
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%20Cromwell.
     5 (lb en engineering) A condition of not being supported or
  constrained by outside forces.
     6 (lb en US historical) Before the American Civil War, any of the
  states in which the owning of slaves was not legal.
     7 (lb en grammar) A noun form in Afroasiatic languages contrasting
  with the (l en construct state) by the noun not being (l en dependent)
  {q|more commonly called (l en absolute state), or (l en indeterminate
  state) if the specific language contrasts a (l en determinate state)
  with the construct state}.

  Free State
     n.
     1 (place en province c/South Africa capital=Bloemfontein), formerly
  Orange Free State.
     2 (n-g: A nickname for Maryland.)
     3 (lb en Ireland UK historical) The Irish Free State.
     4 (lb en Ireland) Irish republican term for the present-day Republic
  of Ireland.
     n.
     (alternative case form of en free state)

  free state
     n.
     1 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 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 (w Holy Roman Emperor Emperor), and later, the
  states of the (w: German Empire) under the (w House of Hohenzollern
  Hohenzollerns).
     3 An independent or autonomous political entity whose formal status
  and relationship to other states is undefined.
     4 A 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
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%20Cromwell.
     5 (lb en engineering) A condition of not being supported or
  constrained by outside forces.
     6 (lb en US historical) Before the American Civil War, any of the
  states in which the owning of slaves was not legal.
     7 (lb en grammar) A noun form in Afroasiatic languages contrasting
  with the (l en construct state) by the noun not being (l en dependent)
  {q|more commonly called (l en absolute state), or (l en indeterminate
  state) if the specific language contrasts a (l en determinate state)
  with the construct state}.

  Free State
     n.
     1 (place en province c/South Africa capital=Bloemfontein), formerly
  Orange Free State.
     2 (n-g: A nickname for Maryland.)
     3 (lb en Ireland UK historical) The Irish Free State.
     4 (lb en Ireland) Irish republican term for the present-day Republic
  of Ireland.
     n.
     (alternative case form of en free state)

  free state
     n.
     1 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 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 (w Holy Roman Emperor Emperor), and later, the
  states of the (w: German Empire) under the (w House of Hohenzollern
  Hohenzollerns).
     3 An independent or autonomous political entity whose formal status
  and relationship to other states is undefined.
     4 A 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
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver%20Cromwell.
     5 (lb en engineering) A condition of not being supported or
  constrained by outside forces.
     6 (lb en US historical) Before the American Civil War, any of the
  states in which the owning of slaves was not legal.
     7 (lb en grammar) A noun form in Afroasiatic languages contrasting
  with the (l en construct state) by the noun not being (l en dependent)
  {q|more commonly called (l en absolute state), or (l en indeterminate
  state) if the specific language contrasts a (l en determinate state)
  with the construct state}.

  Free State
     n.
     1 (place en province c/South Africa capital=Bloemfontein), formerly
  Orange Free State.
     2 (n-g: A nickname for Maryland.)
     3 (lb en Ireland UK historical) The Irish Free State.
     4 (lb en Ireland) Irish republican term for the present-day Republic
  of Ireland.
     n.
     (alternative case form of en free state)

  free state /fɹˈiː stˈeɪt/
  Freistaat  [pol.]
   see: free states
  

  Free State /fɹˈiː stˈeɪt/ 
  Vapaavaltio
  province of South Africa

  free state /fɹˈiː stˈeɪt/ 
  1. osavaltio
  federal state
  2. vapaavaltio
  political entity whose political status is less than that of a fully sovereign nation-state

  free state /fɹˈiː stˈeɪt/ 
  自由国
  political entity whose political status is less than that of a fully sovereign nation-state