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Words people most associate with “state”:

  1. union,
  2. country,
  3. government,
  4. mind,
  5. america

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Noun (8 meanings)

1. the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation.

state, province

Example:
  • “his state is in the deep south”
state is a type of:
types of state:
  • American state (noun) - one of the 50 states of the United States
  • Australian state (noun) - one of the several states constituting Australia
  • Canadian province (noun) - Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes
  • Italian region (noun) - Italy is divided into 20 regions for administrative purposes
  • Soviet Socialist Republic (noun) - one of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991)
  • commonwealth (noun) - the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
  • eparchy (noun) - a province in ancient Greece
instances of state:
  • Abkhaz, Abkhazia (noun) - an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea
  • Adzhar, Adzharia (noun) - an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea
  • Andhra Pradesh (noun) - a state of southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal
  • Assam (noun) - state in northeastern India
  • Bavaria (noun) - a state in southern Germany famous for its beer
state is a member of:
state is derivationally related to:
  • provincial (adjective) - characteristic of the provinces or their people
  • provincial (adjective) - of or associated with a province

2. the way something is with respect to its main attributes.

state

Examples:
  • “the current state of knowledge”,
  • “his state of health”,
  • “in a weak financial state”
state is a type of:
  • attribute (noun) - an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity
types of state:

3. the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state.

state

Example:
  • “the state has lowered its income tax”
state is a type of:
types of state:
  • Soviets (noun) - the government of the Soviet Union
  • welfare state (noun) - a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.

4. a politically organized body of people under a single government.

state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic

Examples:
  • “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”
state is a type of:
types of state:
  • Dominion (noun) - one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth
  • Reich (noun) - the German state
  • ally (noun) - a friendly nation
  • city state, city-state (noun) - a state consisting of a sovereign city
  • commonwealth country (noun) - any of the countries in the British Commonwealth
instances of state:
  • Eelam, Tamil Eelam (noun) - the independent state that the Tamil Tigers have fought for
parts of state:
  • estate of the realm, estate, the three estates (noun) - a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights

5. (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).

state of matter, state

Example:
  • “the solid state of water is called ice”
state is a type of:
  • chemical phenomenon (noun) - any natural phenomenon involving chemistry (as changes to atoms or molecules)
types of state:
  • gas, gaseous state (noun) - the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity
  • liquid, liquidness, liquidity, liquid state (noun) - the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
  • phase, form (noun) - (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system
  • plasma (noun) - (physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors
  • solid, solidness, solid state (noun) - the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress
Attribute:
  • gaseous (adjective) - existing as or having characteristics of a gas
  • liquid (adjective) - existing as or having characteristics of a liquid
  • solid (adjective) - of definite shape and volume
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6. a state of depression or agitation.

state

Example:
  • “he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him”
state is a type of:
  • emotional state, spirit (noun) - the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection)
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7. the territory occupied by a nation.

country, state, land

Examples:
  • “he returned to the land of his birth”,
  • “he visited several European countries”
state is a type of:
types of state:
instances of state:
members of state:
  • department (noun) - the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)
  • state, province (noun) - the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
parts of state:
  • domain, demesne, land (noun) - territory over which rule or control is exercised
  • midland (noun) - the interior part of a country

8. the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies.

Department of State, United States Department of State, State Department, State, DoS

Example:
  • “the Department of State was created in 1789”
state is a type of:
  • executive department (noun) - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States
types of state:
  • Foggy Bottom (noun) - United States Department of State, which is housed in a building in a low-lying area of Washington near the Potomac River
parts of state:
  • Bureau of Diplomatic Security, DS (noun) - the bureau in the State Department that is responsible for the security of diplomats and embassies overseas
  • Bureau of Intelligence and Research, INR (noun) - an agency that is the primary source in the State Department for interpretive analyses of global developments and focal point for policy issues and activities of the Intelligence Community
  • Foreign Service (noun) - the part of the State Department that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world

Verb (3 meanings)

1. express in words.

to state, say, tell

Examples:
  • “He said that he wanted to marry her”,
  • “tell me what is bothering you”,
  • “state your opinion”,
  • “state your name”
to state is a way to:
ways to state:
to state is derivationally related to:
Verb group:
  • to say (verb) - state as one's opinion or judgement

2. put before.

to submit, state, put forward, posit

Example:
  • “I submit to you that the accused is guilty”
to state is a way to:
to state is derivationally related to:
  • affirmation, assertion, statement (noun) - the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
  • argument, statement (noun) - a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
  • submission (noun) - (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case he is arguing

3. indicate through a symbol, formula, etc..

to express, state

Example:
  • “Can you express this distance in kilometers?”
to state is a way to:
ways to state:
  • to vote (verb) - express a choice or opinion
  • to vote (verb) - express one's choice or preference by vote
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