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free-soil - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'free-soil' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Free-soil [ a.]
- Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; -- esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856.

Meaning of 'free-soil' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . free-soil [ s]
Meaning (1):
- where slavery was prohibited
Example in sentence:
  • a free-soil state