From en.wiktionary.org:
[Free State]
** English
*** Etymology
From [en], probably a [en].
*** Noun
[en-noun]
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 .
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 [Holy Roman Emperor] , and later, the states of the [German Empire] under the [House of Hohenzollern] .
3. An independent or autonomous political entity whose formal status and relationship to other states is undefined.
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 吴语: Oliver Cromwell .
5. [en] A condition of not being supported or constrained by outside forces.
6. [en] Before the American Civil War , any of the states in which slaveownership was illegal .
7. [en] A noun form in Afroasiatic languages contrasting with the [en] by the noun not being [en] [more commonly called [en] , or [en] if the specific language contrasts a [en] with the construct state] .
**** Derived terms
{{col|en|Free State |Free State of Jones |Free-Stater }}
**** Translations
[political entity whose political status is less than that of a fully
sovereign nation-state]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Irish: [ga]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Russian: [ru]
[trans-bottom]
[federal state]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
[en] [en]