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State   /steɪt/   Listen
State

noun
1.
The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation.  Synonym: province.
2.
The way something is with respect to its main attributes.  "His state of health" , "In a weak financial state"
3.
The group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state.
4.
A politically organized body of people under a single government.  Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica.  "African nations" , "Students who had come to the nation's capitol" , "The country's largest manufacturer" , "An industrialized land"
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).  Synonym: state of matter.
6.
A state of depression or agitation.
7.
The territory occupied by a nation.  Synonyms: country, land.  "He visited several European countries"
8.
The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies.  Synonyms: Department of State, DoS, State Department, United States Department of State.
verb
(past & past part. stated; pres. part. stating)
1.
Express in words.  Synonyms: say, tell.  "Tell me what is bothering you" , "State your opinion" , "State your name"
2.
Put before.  Synonyms: posit, put forward, submit.
3.
Indicate through a symbol, formula, etc..  Synonym: express.



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"State" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Sylla's discovery of the state of her feelings towards Captain Bloxam was a strong desire to cultivate her acquaintance with his mother and sister. She got on fairly with Blanche down at Todborough, but was quite aware that ...
— Belles and Ringers • Hawley Smart
... river and of the country adjacent to it has materially changed, and inferences drawn from present conditions may be erroneous. This change is the direct result of the recent stocking of the country with cattle. More cattle have been brought into the country than in its natural state it will support. One of the results of this overstocking is a very high death rate among the cattle; another and more important result is that the grasses and other vegetation have no chance to seed or mature, being cropped off close to the ...
— Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona • Cosmos Mindeleff
... closing and locking the door after beckoning to Bose, who was never permitted to enter the house except upon extraordinary occasions. "I had a fine chance to become a rebel pirate. When the prize-master who was put aboard of us after we were captured, found that I was from a seceded State, he promised if I would ship on the Sumter to ask ...
— Marcy The Blockade Runner • Harry Castlemon
... was told her in the London newspapers—not by Mr. Squeers, for he is too kind and good to set anybody against anybody—and it has vexed her so much, Mobbs can't think. She is sorry to find he is discontented, which is sinful and horrid, and hopes Mr. Squeers will flog him into a happier state of mind; and with this view, she has also stopped his halfpenny a week pocket-money, and given a double-bladed knife with a corkscrew in it to the Missionaries, which she had bought on ...
— Ten Boys from Dickens • Kate Dickinson Sweetser
... cook had been attacked by fits of moodiness which he could not shake off. He could not rid his mind of the thought that his friend the drover was going to defraud him of his share in the gold-mine. He blamed himself for telling anybody about it, and at last worked himself up into such a state that he set out, alone except for an old horse, to go to the Musgrave Ranges. The men on Tumurti Station were used to Pat's sudden comings and goings, and took them as a matter of course and did not inquire what he intended to do. He would ...
— In the Musgrave Ranges • Jim Bushman


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