the states

Questions about the states

What does the states mean?

the states means "North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776".

What is another word for the states?

Close synonyms include United States, United States of America, America, US, U.S.. 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 the states a common word?

the states 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.