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State

noun

1.

The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation. Synonym: province.

2.

The way something is with respect to its main attributes. "His state of health" , "In a weak financial state"

3.

The group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state.

4.

A politically organized body of people under a single government. Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica. "African nations" , "Students who had come to the nation's capitol" , "The country's largest manufacturer" , "An industrialized land"

5.

(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). Synonym: state of matter.

6.

A state of depression or agitation.

7.

The territory occupied by a nation. Synonyms: country, land. "He visited several European countries"

8.

The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies. Synonyms: Department of State, DoS, State Department, United States Department of State.

verb

(past & past part. stated; pres. part. stating)

1.

Express in words. Synonyms: say, tell. "Tell me what is bothering you" , "State your opinion" , "State your name"

2.

Put before. Synonyms: posit, put forward, submit.

3.

Indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.. Synonym: express.

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"State" Quotes from Famous Books

... ADOLPH, historian, born in Prussia; held a State office, but was dismissed and exiled because of his sympathy with the revolutionary movement of 1848; came to England to collect materials for a history of the Tudors; examined in Simancas, in Spain, under great privations, papers on the period in the public ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... arrested. Three days had passed away, and Clotel still remained in the hotel at which she had first put up; and yet she had got no tidings of her child. Unfortunately for Clotel, a disturbance had just broken out amongst the slave population in the state of Virginia, and all strangers ...

— Clotel; or, The President's Daughter • William Wells Brown

... to eat huckleberry preserves for supper two nights runnin'. Course they had plenty of other things in the closet, but they'd opened a jar of huckleberries, so they had to be et up afore they spiled. That's the way they run THAT hotel. And Mrs. Bacon is eastern Massachusetts delegate from the State Grange. She's Grand Excited Matron. Just think of treatin' her that way! Well, where've ...

— Thankful's Inheritance • Joseph C. Lincoln

... thought was to go to her father, but she shrank from doing this as her mother would probably be asleep, and in her delicate state the alarm ...

— Cutlass and Cudgel • George Manville Fenn

... may have been, his children and grandchildren had in them more than ordinary ability. They were not content to stand still, but made themselves useful and prosperous, so that the name was known and honored in the city and State even before the birth of the son who was to make ...

— Theodore Roosevelt • Edmund Lester Pearson

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