Our forefathers declared it July 4, 1776

noun

1. The quality or state of being independent
2. Competence

geographical name

1. City in western Missouri east of Kansas City population 116,830

noun

1. A civil holiday for the celebration of the anniversary of the beginnings of national independence

noun

1. Juneteenth

noun

1. June 19 observed as a legal holiday in the United States in commemoration of the end of slavery in the U.S. juneteenth

noun

1. The property of a set (as of matrices or vectors) having no linear combination of all its elements equal to zero when coefficients are taken from a given set unless the coefficient of each element is zero

noun

1. March 2 observed as the anniversary of the declaration of independence of Texas from Mexico in 1836 and also as the birthday of Sam Houston

noun phrase

1. The war of 1775-83 in which 13 British colonies in North America broke free from British rule and became the United States of America

idiom

1. To say that one no longer accepts the rule of another

   "The country declared (its) independence."

noun phrase

1. A war that is fought to gain independence