IRISH FREE STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Irish Free State mean? 

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

1. a republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1921

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRISH FREE STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1921

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Eire; Ireland; Irish Free State

Instance hypernyms:

European country; European nation (countries occupying the European continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Irish Free State"):

Waterford (a port city in southern Ireland; famous for glass industry)

Tara (a village in eastern Ireland (northwest of Dublin); seat of Irish kings until 6th century)

Limerick (port city in southwestern Ireland)

Galway (a port city in western Ireland on Galway Bay)

Cork (a port city in southern Ireland)

capital of Ireland; Dublin; Irish capital (capital and largest city and major port of the Irish Free State)

Domain member region:

Dissident Irish Republican Army; Real IRA; Real Irish Republican Army; RIRA (a radical terrorist group that broke away in 1997 when the mainstream Provisional IRA proposed a cease-fire; has continued terrorist activities in opposition to any peace agreement)

IRA; Irish Republican Army; Provisional IRA; Provisional Irish Republican Army; Provos (a militant organization of Irish nationalists who used terrorism and guerilla warfare in an effort to drive British forces from Northern Ireland and achieve a united independent Ireland)

Catholic Reaction Force; INLA; Irish National Liberation Army; People's Liberation Army; People's Republican Army (a radical terrorist group dedicated to the removal of British forces from Northern Ireland and the unification of Ireland)

CIRA; Continuity Army Council; Continuity Irish Republican Army (a terrorist organization formed in Ireland in 1994 as a clandestine armed wing of Sinn Fein)

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

Emerald Isle; Hibernia; Ireland (an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland)

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

Holonyms ("Irish Free State" is a member of...):

British Commonwealth; Commonwealth of Nations (an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and its dependencies and many former British colonies that are now sovereign states but owe allegiance to the British Crown)

Common Market; EC; EEC; EU; Europe; European Community; European Economic Community; European Union (an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members)