state

state is a 5-letter English word with 30 senses as noun, adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 5 · 30 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
2. noun. Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
3. noun. Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
4. noun. Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
5. noun. A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
6. noun. Estate, possession.
7. noun. A person of high rank.
8. noun. 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.
9. noun. The principal persons in a government.
10. noun. The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
11. noun. A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.
12. noun. A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.
13. noun. In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.
14. noun. 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.
15. adjective. Stately.
16. adjective. Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.
17. transitive verb. To set; to settle; to establish.
18. transitive verb. 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.
19. noun. A statement; also, a document containing a statement.
20. noun. the way something is with respect to its main attributes

    "the current state of knowledge"

    "his state of health"

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

    "the Department of State was created in 1789"

    Synonyms: dos

22. noun. a politically organized body of people under a single government

    "the state has elected a new president"

    "African nations"

    Synonyms: commonwealth, country, land, nation

23. noun. the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state

    "the state has lowered its income tax"

24. noun. the territory occupied by a nation

    "he returned to the land of his birth"

    "he visited several European countries"

    Synonyms: country, land

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

    "his state is in the deep south"

    Synonyms: province

26. noun. a state of depression or agitation

    "he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him"

27. 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"

28. verb. put before

    "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"

    Synonyms: posit, submit

29. verb. express in words

    "He said that he wanted to marry her"

    "tell me what is bothering you"

    Synonyms: say, tell

30. verb. indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.

    "Can you express this distance in kilometers?"

    Synonyms: express

Synonyms

dos, commonwealth, country, land, nation, province, posit, submit, say, tell, express

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in state:

taste, tates, teats, testa

Common word forms

stated, stater, states, stately, stating, stateful, stateable, stateless, statement

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for STATE lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.