land of the free

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Proper noun

the land of the free

1. (poetic) The United States of America.
   • 1814, Francis Scott Key, The Defence of Fort McHenry:

     O! say does that star-spangled Banner yet wave, / O'er the land of the Free, and the home of the brave?

   • 1839 April, “Italian Historians”, in The North American Review, volume 48, number 103, page 330:

     […] nowhere but in America could a liberty, so easily acquired, be so easily maintained. Since that time, Heaven has smiled incessantly on the land of the free.

   • 1954, “The Ballad of Davy Crockett”, Grant Sherman Henry, Thomas W. Blackburn (lyrics), George Bruns (music), performed by The Wellingtons:

     Born on a mountaintop in Tennessee / Greenest state in the land of the free

See also

• Land of the Leal
• land of the living