state

Meanings

• the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
  • "his state is in the deep south"
• the way something is with respect to its main attributes
  • "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
  • "the state has lowered its income tax"
• a politically organized body of people under a single government
  • "the state has elected a new president"
• (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"
• a state of depression or agitation
  • "he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him"
• the territory occupied by a nation
• the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies
  • "the Department of State was created in 1789"
• express in words
  • "state your opinion"
  • "state your name"
• put before
• indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.

Synonyms

body politic, commonwealth, country, Department of State, DoS, express, land, nation, posit, province, put forward, res publica, say, State Department, state of matter, submit, tell, United States Department of State