State (Noun)
Meaning 1
The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies; "the Department of State was created in 1789".
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 2
The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south".
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Nouns denoting spatial position.
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Meaning 3
A state of depression or agitation; "he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him".
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Nouns denoting natural processes.
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Meaning 4
The way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state".
Classification
Unique beginner for nouns.
Hyponyms
- Antagonism
- Imminency
- Power
- Annulment
- Point
- Dependance
- Inactivity
- Inactiveness
- Stillness
- Dependency
- Employ
- Eternal Damnation
- Imminentness
- Natural State
- Stage
- Enmity
- State Of Nature
- Lifelessness
- Preparation
- Unity
- Immatureness
- Matureness
- Saving Grace
- Wholeness
- Level
- Beingness
- Existence
- Position
- Agency
- Impendency
- State Of Affairs
- Activity
- Impendence
- Imperfectness
- Face Of The Earth
- Delegacy
- Destruction
- Flawlessness
- Death
- State Of Flux
- Ne Plus Ultra
- Status
- Preparedness
- Non-issue
- State Of Grace
- Activeness
- Polyvalency
- Multivalency
- Forthcomingness
- Unification
- Multivalence
Meaning 5
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".
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 6
The territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries".
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Nouns denoting spatial position.
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Meaning 7
The group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state; "the state has lowered its income tax".
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 8
(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".
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Nouns denoting natural processes.