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STATE





Definition:

  1. [noun] the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state; "the state has lowered its income tax"

  2. [noun] the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south"
    Synonyms: province

  3. [noun] a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"
    Synonyms: nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic

  4. [noun] the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"

  5. [noun] the federal department in the UnitedStates that sets and maintains foreign policies; "the Department of State was created in 1789"
    Synonyms: Department of State, State Department, State, DoS

  6. [noun] the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
    Synonyms: country, land

  7. [noun] a state of depression or agitation; "he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him"

  8. [noun] (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); "the solid state of water is called ice"
    Synonyms: of matter

  9. [verb] express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name"
    Synonyms: say, tell

  10. [verb] put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
    Synonyms: submit, put forward, posit

  11. [verb] indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.; "Can you express this distance in kilometers?"
    Synonyms: express

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