SLAVE STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does slave state mean? 

• SLAVE STATE (noun)
  The noun SLAVE STATE has 1 sense:

1. any of the southern states in which slavery was legal prior to the American Civil War

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLAVE STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the southern states in which slavery was legal prior to the American Civil War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("slave state" is a kind of...):

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Holonyms ("slave state" is a part of...):

Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)

Antonym:

free state (any state prohibiting slavery prior to the American Civil War)