ORANGE FREE STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Orange Free State mean? 

• ORANGE FREE STATE (noun)
  The noun ORANGE FREE STATE has 1 sense:

1. a province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997

  Familiarity information: ORANGE FREE STATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORANGE FREE STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Free State; Orange Free State

Instance hypernyms:

province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

Holonyms ("Orange Free State" is a part of...):

Republic of South Africa; South Africa (a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers))