state > define

noun

• The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation.
  • usage: "his state is in the deep south"
  • synonyms: province
• The way something is with respect to its main attributes.
  • usage: "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"
• The group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state.
  • usage: "the state has lowered its income tax"
• A politically organized body of people under a single government.
  • usage: "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
• 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))
  • usage: "the solid state of water is called ice"
  • synonyms: state of matter
• A state of depression or agitation.
  • usage: "he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him"
• The territory occupied by a nation.
  • usage: "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
  • synonyms: country, land
• The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies.
  • usage: "the Department of State was created in 1789"
  • synonyms: Department of State, United States Department of State, State Department, DoS

verb

• Express in words.
  • usage: "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name"
  • synonyms: say, tell
• Put before.
  • usage: "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
  • synonyms: submit, put forward, posit
• Indicate through a symbol, formula, etc..
  • usage: "Can you express this distance in kilometers"
  • synonyms: express

• (a.) Stately.
• (n.) The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
• (n.) The principal persons in a government.
• (n.) Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
• (n.) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
• (n.) A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.
• (n.) A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
• (a.) Belonging to the state or body politic; public.
• (v.t.) To set; to settle; to establish.
• (n.) Estate, possession.
• (v.t.) To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc.
• (n.) A political body or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.
• (n.) Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
• (n.) The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
• (n.) A person of high rank.
• (n.) In the United States, one of the commonwealth or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.
• (n.) Any body of men united by profession or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6.
• (n.) Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
• (n.) A statement; also, a document containing a statement.