'State' definitions:
Definition of 'state'
From: WordNet
noun
The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south" [syn: state, province]
noun
The way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"
noun
The group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state; "the state has lowered its income tax"
noun
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" [syn: state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic]
noun
(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" [syn: state of matter, state]
noun
A state of depression or agitation; "he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him"
noun
The territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" [syn: country, state, land]
noun
The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies; "the Department of State was created in 1789" [syn: Department of State, United States Department of State, State Department, State, DoS]
verb
Express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name" [syn: state, say, tell]
verb
verb
Indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.; "Can you express this distance in kilometers?" [syn: express, state]
Definition of 'State'
From: GCIDE
- State \State\ (st[=a]t), n. [OE. stat, OF. estat, F. ['e]tat, fr. L. status a standing, position, fr. stare, statum, to stand. See Stand, and cf. Estate, Status.]
- 1. The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time. [1913 Webster]
- State is a term nearly synonymous with "mode," but of a meaning more extensive, and is not exclusively limited to the mutable and contingent. --Sir W. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]
- Declare the past and present state of things. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Keep the state of the question in your eye. --Boyle. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor. [1913 Webster]
- Thy honor, state, and seat is due to me. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance. [1913 Webster]
- She instructed him how he should keep state, and yet with a modest sense of his misfortunes. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- Can this imperious lord forget to reign, Quit all his state, descend, and serve again? --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp. [1913 Webster]
- Where least of state there most of love is shown. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- His high throne, . . . under state Of richest texture spread. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- When he went to court, he used to kick away the state, and sit down by his prince cheek by jowl. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Estate; possession. [Obs.] --Daniel. [1913 Webster]
- Your state, my lord, again is yours. --Massinger. [1913 Webster]
- 7. A person of high rank. [Obs.] --Latimer. [1913 Webster]
- 8. Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6. [1913 Webster]
- 9. The principal persons in a government. [1913 Webster]
- The bold design Pleased highly those infernal states. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 10. The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland. [1913 Webster]
- 11. A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Well monarchies may own religion's name, But states are atheists in their very fame. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 12. A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united under one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation. [1913 Webster]
- Municipal law is a rule of conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
- The Puritans in the reign of Mary, driven from their homes, sought an asylum in Geneva, where they found a state without a king, and a church without a bishop. --R. Choate. [1913 Webster]
- 13. In the United States, one of the commonwealths, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stand in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealths, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The term State, in its technical sense, is used in distinction from the federal system, i. e., the government of the United States. [1913 Webster]
- 14. Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Note: When state is joined with another word, or used adjectively, it denotes public, or what belongs to the community or body politic, or to the government; also, what belongs to the States severally in the American Union; as, state affairs; state policy; State laws of Iowa. [1913 Webster]
- Nascent state. (Chem.) See under Nascent.
- Secretary of state. See Secretary, n., 3.
- State bargea royal barge, or a barge belonging to a government.
- State bed, an elaborately carved or decorated bed.
- State carriage, a highly decorated carriage for officials going in state, or taking part in public processions.
- State paper, an official paper relating to the interests or government of a state. --Jay.
- State prison, a public prison or penitentiary; -- called also State's prison.
- State prisoner, one in confinement, or under arrest, for a political offense.
- State rights, or States' rights, the rights of the several independent States, as distinguished from the rights of the Federal government. It has been a question as to what rights have been vested in the general government. [U.S.]
- State's evidence. See Probator, 2, and under Evidence.
- State sword, a sword used on state occasions, being borne before a sovereign by an attendant of high rank.
- State trial, a trial of a person for a political offense.
- States of the Church. See under Ecclesiastical. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: State, Situation, Condition.
- Usage: State is the generic term, and denotes in general the mode in which a thing stands or exists. The situation of a thing is its state in reference to external objects and influences; its condition is its internal state, or what it is in itself considered. Our situation is good or bad as outward things bear favorably or unfavorably upon us; our condition is good or bad according to the state we are actually in as respects our persons, families, property, and other things which comprise our sources of enjoyment. [1913 Webster]
- I do not, brother, Infer as if I thought my sister's state Secure without all doubt or controversy. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- We hoped to enjoy with ease what, in our situation, might be called the luxuries of life. --Cook. [1913 Webster]
- And, O, what man's condition can be worse Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse? --Cowley. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'State'
From: GCIDE
- State \State\ (st[=a]t), a.
- 1. Stately. [Obs.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Belonging to the state, or body politic; public. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'State'
From: GCIDE
- State \State\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stated; p. pr. & vb. n. Stating.]
- 1. To set; to settle; to establish. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- I myself, though meanest stated, And in court now almost hated. --Wither. [1913 Webster]
- Who calls the council, states the certain day. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc. [1913 Webster]
- To state it. To assume state or dignity. [Obs.] "Rarely dressed up, and taught to state it." --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'State'
From: GCIDE
- State \State\, n. A statement; also, a document containing a statement. [R.] --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'state'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affirm,
- air,
- allege,
- ally,
- announce,
- annunciate,
- archbishopric,
- archdiocese,
- archduchy,
- archdukedom,
- argue,
- arrondissement,
- articulate,
- assert,
- assever,
- asseverate,
- assign,
- attitude,
- aver,
- avouch,
- avow,
- Babylonian splendor,
- bailiwick,
- bishopric,
- body politic,
- borough,
- brilliance,
- bring out,
- buffer state,
- canton,
- capacity,
- captive nation,
- ceremonial,
- character,
- chieftaincy,
- chieftainry,
- chime in,
- circumstance,
- circumstances,
- citizenry,
- city,
- city-state,
- civic,
- civil,
- claim,
- colony,
- come out with,
- common,
- common man,
- commonweal,
- commonwealth,
- communal,
- commune,
- community,
- community at large,
- conceive,
- condition,
- conditions,
- confess,
- confirm,
- congressional district,
- constablewick,
- constitution,
- contend,
- cosmopolitan,
- couch,
- couch in terms,
- count,
- country,
- county,
- declare,
- declare roundly,
- delineate,
- deliver,
- denominate,
- departement,
- describe,
- designate,
- determine,
- dignified,
- diocese,
- district,
- domain,
- dominion,
- duchy,
- dukedom,
- earldom,
- elaborateness,
- electoral district,
- electorate,
- elegance,
- elucidate,
- embody in words,
- empery,
- empire,
- enunciate,
- estate,
- everybody,
- Everyman,
- everyman,
- everyone,
- everywoman,
- explain,
- expound,
- express,
- express the belief,
- federal,
- fix,
- folk,
- folks,
- footing,
- form,
- formal,
- formality,
- formularize,
- formulate,
- frame,
- free city,
- general,
- general public,
- gentry,
- give,
- give expression to,
- give notice,
- give words to,
- glory,
- gorgeousness,
- government,
- governmental,
- grand duchy,
- grandeur,
- grandiosity,
- grandness,
- hamlet,
- have,
- heraldry,
- hold,
- hundred,
- imperial,
- imposingness,
- impressiveness,
- indicate,
- insist,
- international,
- interpret,
- issue a manifesto,
- issue a statement,
- John Doe,
- kingdom,
- Kreis,
- land,
- lavishness,
- lay down,
- luxuriousness,
- luxury,
- magistracy,
- magnificence,
- maintain,
- majestic,
- majesty,
- make a statement,
- make an announcement,
- mandant,
- mandate,
- mandated territory,
- mandatee,
- mandatory,
- manifesto,
- mark,
- men,
- mention,
- metropolis,
- metropolitan area,
- mode,
- name,
- narrate,
- nation,
- national,
- nationality,
- nobility,
- nuncupate,
- oblast,
- official,
- okrug,
- paragraph,
- parish,
- people,
- people in general,
- persons,
- phase,
- phrase,
- pick out,
- pin down,
- plushness,
- point out,
- polis,
- polity,
- pomp,
- populace,
- population,
- poshness,
- position,
- possession,
- posture,
- power,
- precinct,
- predicate,
- present,
- pride,
- principality,
- principate,
- proclaim,
- profess,
- pronounce,
- protectorate,
- protest,
- proudness,
- province,
- Public,
- public,
- publish a manifesto,
- puppet government,
- puppet regime,
- put,
- put in words,
- put it,
- quote,
- realm,
- recite,
- regal,
- region,
- rehearse,
- relate,
- report,
- republic,
- resplendence,
- rhetorize,
- riding,
- ritziness,
- royal,
- satellite,
- say,
- select,
- seneschalty,
- set,
- set down,
- set forth,
- set out,
- settlement,
- shape,
- sheriffalty,
- sheriffwick,
- shire,
- shrievalty,
- signify,
- situation,
- social,
- societal,
- society,
- soke,
- solemn,
- solemnity,
- sovereign nation,
- speak,
- speak out,
- speak up,
- specialize,
- specify,
- splendidness,
- splendiferousness,
- splendor,
- stage,
- stake,
- stand,
- stand for,
- stand on,
- state of affairs,
- state of being,
- stateliness,
- stately,
- stature,
- status,
- stipulate,
- structure,
- style,
- submit,
- sultanate,
- sumptuousness,
- superpower,
- supranational,
- swear,
- tell,
- territory,
- testify,
- throw out,
- toparchia,
- toparchy,
- town,
- township,
- utter,
- vent,
- ventilate,
- village,
- voice,
- vow,
- wapentake,
- ward,
- warrant,
- word,
- world,
- you and me
Words containing 'State'
- Stated,
- Statedly,
- Stateful,
- Stately,
- Stating,
- To state it,
- the states,
- Badger State,
- Bay State,
- Bayou State,
- Bear State,
- Beaver State,
- Blackwater State,
- Buckeye State,
- Case stated,
- Centennial State,
- Chinook State,
- Civil state,
- Construct state,
- Cotton State,
- Coyote State,
- Cracker State,
- Creole State,
- Diamond State,
- Ecclesiastical States,
- Empire State,
- Evergreen State,
- Flinty state,
- Flower State,
- Free States,
- Golden State,
- Gopher State,
- Hawkeye State,
- Hoosier State,
- In a state of nature,
- Intermediate state,
- Keystone State,
- Lumber State,
- Magnolia State,
- Middle States,
- Mountain State,
- Nascent state,
- Palmetto State,
- Panhandle State,
- Peninsula State,
- Prairie State,
- Sagebrush State,
- Secretary of state,
- Silver State,
- Sioux State,
- Sooner State,
- Southern States,
- Sovereign state,
- Spheroidal state,
- State Center,
- State College,
- State Line,
- State barge,
- State bed,
- State carriage,
- State paper,
- State prison,
- State prisoner,
- State rights,
- State socialism,
- State sword,
- State trial,
- State's evidence,
- State's prison,
- Stated supply,
- States of the Church,
- States' rights,
- Sucker State,
- Sunflower State,
- Tarheel state,
- Turpentine State,
- Typhoid state,
- United States,
- Volunteer State,
- Wolverine State,
- aloha state,
- american state,
- associated state,
- atmospheric state,
- australian state,
- authoritarian state,
- balkan state,
- baltic state,
- beehive state,
- bluegrass state,
- buffer state,
- caliphate state,
- camellia state,
- chair of state,
- change of state,
- change state,
- chief of state,
- city state,
- cognitive state,
- confederate states,
- constitution state,
- cornhusker state,
- department of state,
- ecstatic state,
- emotional state,
- energy state,
- equality state,
- everglade state,
- first state,
- free state,
- garden state,
- garrison state,
- gaseous state,
- gem state,
- granite state,
- ground state,
- gulf states,
- head of state,
- liquid state,
- mental state,
- minister of state,
- mint state,
- mormon state,
- natural state,
- nutmeg state,
- ocean state,
- oxidation state,
- papal states,
- pathological state,
- peach state,
- pelican state,
- physiological state,
- police state,
- psychological state,
- puppet state,
- renegade state,
- rogue state,
- show me state,
- slave state,
- solid state,
- state attorney,
- state bank,
- state boundary,
- state capital,
- state capitalism,
- state change,
- state department,
- state government,
- state highway,
- state of affairs,
- state of bahrain,
- state of eritrea,
- state of flux,
- state of grace,
- state of israel,
- state of katar,
- state of kuwait,
- state of matter,
- state of mind,
- state of nature,
- state of qatar,
- state of the art,
- state of war,
- state senator,
- state treasurer,
- state trooper,
- state's attorney,
- stately home,
- states general,
- steady state,
- sunshine state,
- temporary state,
- totalitarian state,
- treasure state,
- united states department of state,
- war between the states,
- welfare state,
- Big Bend State,
- Blue Hen State,
- Empire State of the South,
- Empire State of the West,
- North Star State,
- State Center, IA,
- State College, PA,
- State Line City,
- State Line City, IN,
- State Line, ID,
- State Line, MS,
- States-general,
- To turn State's evidence,
- battle born state,
- capital of the united states,
- church-state,
- city-state,
- committee for state security,
- commonwealth of independent states,
- confederate states of america,
- constitution of the united states,
- eastern united states,
- empire state building,
- federated states of micronesia,
- grand canyon state,
- great lakes state,
- green mountain state,
- independent state of samoa,
- islamic state of afghanistan,
- midwestern united states,
- mount rushmore state,
- narco-state,
- new york state,
- northeastern united states,
- northwestern united states,
- ohio state university,
- old dominion state,
- old line state,
- old north state,
- orange free state,
- organization of american states,
- peace garden state,
- pine tree state,
- president of the united states,
- solid-state,
- southeastern united states,
- southwestern united states,
- state of the vatican city,
- state supreme court,
- state tax lien,
- state-controlled,
- state-of-the-art,
- state-supported,
- steady state theory,
- tar heel state,
- united mexican states,
- united states army,
- united states cabinet,
- united states code,
- united states congress,
- united states constitution,
- united states dollar,
- united states government,
- united states marines,
- united states mint,
- united states navy,
- united states of america,
- united states president,
- united states senate,
- united states treasury,
- united states waters,
- western united states,
- Blue-grass State,
- Chief Justice of the United States,
- Lone-Star State,
- Pine-tree State,
- The United States Christian Commission,
- The United States Sanitary Commission,
- attorney general of the united states,
- great seal of the united states,
- mid-atlantic states,
- secretary of state for the home department,
- solid-state physics,
- state-sponsored terrorism,
- states' rights democratic party,
- supreme court of the united states,
- united states air force,
- united states army rangers,
- united states attorney general,
- united states border patrol,
- united states civil war,
- united states coast guard,
- united states customary system,
- united states department of defense,
- united states dry unit,
- united states house of representatives,
- united states intelligence agency,
- united states intelligence community,
- united states liquid unit,
- united states marine corps,
- united states marshals service,
- united states military academy,
- united states naval academy,
- united states post office,
- united states postal service,
- united states secret service,
- united states supreme court,
- united states trade representative,
- united states virgin islands,
- vice president of the united states,
- The Regents of the University of the State of New York,
- independent state of papua new guinea,
- new york state barge canal,
- united states air force academy,
- united states army special forces,
- united states fish and wildlife service,
- united states government accounting office,
- united states government printing office,
- united states national library of medicine,
- united states postal inspection service,
- united states public health service,
- united states army criminal investigation laboratory