Free State vs state

Free State and state both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Free State	Yes	No	No	No
state	Yes	No	Yes	No

Free State (noun)	state (noun)
a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies, with capital Annapolis	the way something is with respect to its main attributes
a province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997	a politically organized body of people under a single government
	the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
	the territory occupied by a nation
	the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
	a state of depression or agitation
	(chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)

Free State (verb)	state (verb)
	express in words
	put before
	indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.