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state is a noun and verb meaning "the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation". It is pronounced /ˈsteɪt/ — stayt. It carries 11 recorded senses.
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”
“African nations”
“students who had come to the nation's capitol”
“the country's largest manufacturer”
“an industrialized land”
(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”
chemistry
a state of depression or agitation
“he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him”
colloquialism
the territory occupied by a nation
“he returned to the land of his birth”
“he visited several European countries”
the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies
“the Department of State was created in 1789”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for state come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.