plural of free state

plural of Free State

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.

A province of South Africa. Capital: Bloemfontein, formerly Orange Free State. / A nickname for Maryland. / (Ireland, UK, historical) The Irish Free State.

Alternative letter-case form of free state

(historical) A former province of South Africa (1910–1994), now the province of Free State. / (historical) A former independent Boer republic in southern Africa (1854–1902).

(historical) A kingdom, a former country in Central Africa that was ruled by King Leopold II of Belgium as absolute ruler from 1885 until it was annexed by Belgium in 1908. Former name of Democratic Republic of the Congo.

(historical) An autonomous dominion under nominal British sovereignty that included most of the island of Ireland, created in 1922 as part of a treaty between the British government and Irish republicans.

(historical) An unrecognized country that existed from 1863 to 1865, when Jones County, Covington County, Bainbridge County and portions of others, of the state of Mississippi, seceded from the Confederate States of America, and attempted to ally with the Union.