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Definition of Free State in English: Free Statenoun 1historical A state of the US in which slavery did not exist. Example sentencesExamples - They found that, despite California being formed as a free state in 1850, slavery existed in some form.
- Zachary Taylor was president then, and despite being a southerner, supported the admission of California as a free state and the rest of the Mexican Cession territory won in the Mexican War.
- They gathered to press for the admission of Kansas to the Union as a free state and end the extension of slavery.
- Of those, ninety-six existed in slave states, whereas free states contained only fifteen.
- Those blacks born in free states before 1865 were themselves typically no more than two generations removed from slavery, and very often less.
- 1.1informal
2A province in central South Africa, situated to the north of the Orange River; capital, Bloemfontein. Formerly called (until 1995) Orange Free State Example sentencesExamples - The Northern Cape and Free State have also enacted legislation to deal with the observation of health standards at initiation schools.
- They lived in the Karoo and southern Orange Free State.
- Superintendent Louis Jacobs, police spokesperson, said the suspects crossed over the Vaal River into the Free State early on Sunday morning.
- The SA Weather Service said on Monday a light dusting of snow had fallen on Ficksburg in the Free State.
- Sales will be confined to the Southern Transvaal and Orange Free State.
Definition of Free State in US English: Free Statenounfrē stāt 1historical (before the Civil War) a state of the US in which slavery was illegal. Example sentencesExamples - They found that, despite California being formed as a free state in 1850, slavery existed in some form.
- Those blacks born in free states before 1865 were themselves typically no more than two generations removed from slavery, and very often less.
- They gathered to press for the admission of Kansas to the Union as a free state and end the extension of slavery.
- Of those, ninety-six existed in slave states, whereas free states contained only fifteen.
- Zachary Taylor was president then, and despite being a southerner, supported the admission of California as a free state and the rest of the Mexican Cession territory won in the Mexican War.
- 1.1the Free Stateinformal
2A province in central South Africa, situated to the north of the Orange River; capital, Bloemfontein. Formerly called (until 1995) Orange Free State Example sentencesExamples - Superintendent Louis Jacobs, police spokesperson, said the suspects crossed over the Vaal River into the Free State early on Sunday morning.
- They lived in the Karoo and southern Orange Free State.
- Sales will be confined to the Southern Transvaal and Orange Free State.
- The Northern Cape and Free State have also enacted legislation to deal with the observation of health standards at initiation schools.
- The SA Weather Service said on Monday a light dusting of snow had fallen on Ficksburg in the Free State.
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