state attorney

1. 1.

   a prosecuting attorney for a state

   Synonymsstate's attorney

   Broaderprosecutor

Questions about state attorney

What does state attorney mean?

state attorney means "a prosecuting attorney for a state".

What is another word for state attorney?

Close synonyms include state's attorney. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is state attorney a common word?

state attorney is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.