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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Bor′der States′, - American History[U.S. Hist.]the slave states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, which refused to secede from the Union in 1860–61.
- American Historythe U.S. states touching the Canadian border.
- American Historycertain countries of central and northern Europe that border on the former Soviet Union and belonged to the Russian Empire: Finland, Poland (prior to 1940), Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
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