Noun has 3 senses

• free state(n = noun.location) maryland, md, old line state - a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies;




• free state(n = noun.location) - any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War;


Antonym: slave state

• free state(n = noun.location) orange free state - a province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997;