free state   (TTS Sound)

The noun free state has 3 senses

• Maryland, Old Line State, Free State, MD -- (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)


• free state -- (any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War)


• Free State, Orange Free State -- (a province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997)