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free state has 5 distinct synonyms spread across 2 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is slave state.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for free state come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
a province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997