"free state" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: free states [plural]
Etymology: From free + state, probably a calque of German Freistaat. Etymology templates: {{com|en|free|state}} free + state, {{clq|en|de|Freistaat|nocap=1}} calque of German Freistaat Head templates: {{en-noun}} free state (plural free states)
  1. 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. Categories (topical): Slavery Translations (political entity whose political status is less than that of a fully sovereign nation-state): vrystaat (Afrikaans), 自由國 (Chinese Mandarin), 自由国 (zìyóuguó) (Chinese Mandarin), fristat [common-gender] (Danish), vrijstaat [masculine] (Dutch), vapaavaltio (Finnish), état libre [masculine] (French), Freistaat [masculine] (German), saorstát [masculine] (Irish), 自由国 (jiyūkoku) (alt: じゆうこく) (Japanese), свобо́дное госуда́рство (svobódnoje gosudárstvo) [neuter] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-free_state-en-noun-UHlfaCX~ Disambiguation of Slavery: 21 23 5 13 2 20 16 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 11 8 7 3 22 20 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 30 15 7 8 4 19 17 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 40 16 5 8 3 14 13 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 31 11 6 12 3 21 16 Disambiguation of 'political entity whose political status is less than that of a fully sovereign nation-state': 51 8 16 5 1 10 9
  2. A Federal state, with allegiance to a larger entity, as currently with Germany, and earlier, the relationship between the states of the Holy Roman Empire and the Emperor, and later, the states of the German Empire under the Hohenzollerns. Categories (topical): Slavery Translations (federal state): osavaltio (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-free_state-en-noun-kqX005-M Disambiguation of Slavery: 21 23 5 13 2 20 16 Disambiguation of 'federal state': 9 67 3 11 1 4 6
  3. An independent or autonomous political entity whose formal status and relationship to other states is undefined.
    Sense id: en-free_state-en-noun-~5zfyUSG
  4. A republic or commonwealth, as with the former Orange Free State, and especially as used for the current United Kingdom to refer to the Commonwealth period under Cromwell. Categories (topical): Slavery Derived forms: Free State
    Sense id: en-free_state-en-noun-TeelJwzT Disambiguation of Slavery: 21 23 5 13 2 20 16
  5. (engineering) A condition of not being supported or constrained by outside forces. Categories (topical): Engineering
    Sense id: en-free_state-en-noun-oBSByCPV Topics: engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
  6. (US, historical) Before the American Civil War, any of the states in which the owning of slaves was not legal. Tags: US, historical Categories (topical): American Civil War, Slavery
    Sense id: en-free_state-en-noun-VeHFcsNL Disambiguation of American Civil War: 11 10 3 9 1 61 5 Disambiguation of Slavery: 21 23 5 13 2 20 16 Categories (other): American English
  7. (grammar) A noun form in Afroasiatic languages contrasting with the construct state by the noun not being dependent (more commonly called absolute state, or indeterminate state if the specific language contrasts a determinate state with the construct state). Categories (topical): Grammar, Slavery
    Sense id: en-free_state-en-noun-g~ehgtEA Disambiguation of Slavery: 21 23 5 13 2 20 16 Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences

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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "political entity whose political status is less than that of a fully sovereign nation-state",
      "word": "vapaavaltio"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "political entity whose political status is less than that of a fully sovereign nation-state",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "état libre"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "political entity whose political status is less than that of a fully sovereign nation-state",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Freistaat"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "political entity whose political status is less than that of a fully sovereign nation-state",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "saorstát"
    },
    {
      "alt": "じゆうこく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "jiyūkoku",
      "sense": "political entity whose political status is less than that of a fully sovereign nation-state",
      "word": "自由国"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "svobódnoje gosudárstvo",
      "sense": "political entity whose political status is less than that of a fully sovereign nation-state",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "свобо́дное госуда́рство"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "federal state",
      "word": "osavaltio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "free state"
}

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