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ORANGE FREE STATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997
Synonyms:
Free State; Orange Free State
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
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))