state

Definitions

1. 1noun

   The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

2. 2noun

   Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.

3. 3noun

   Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.

4. 4noun

   Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.

5. 5noun

   A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.

6. 6noun

   Estate, possession.

7. 7noun

   A person of high rank.

8. 8noun

   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. 9noun

   The principal persons in a government.

10. 10noun

    The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.

11. 11noun

    A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.

12. 12noun

    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. 13noun

    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. 14noun

    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. 15adjective

    Stately.

16. 16adjective

    Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.

17. 17transitive verb

    To set; to settle; to establish.

18. 18transitive 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. 19noun

    A statement; also, a document containing a statement.

20. 20noun

    the way something is with respect to its main attributes

    "the current state of knowledge"

    "his state of health"

21. 21noun

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

    "the Department of State was created in 1789"

    Synonyms

    dos
22. 22noun

    a politically organized body of people under a single government

    "the state has elected a new president"

    "African nations"

    Synonyms

    commonwealthcountrylandnation
23. 23noun

    the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state

    "the state has lowered its income tax"

24. 24noun

    the territory occupied by a nation

    "he returned to the land of his birth"

    "he visited several European countries"

    Synonyms

    countryland
25. 25noun

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

    "his state is in the deep south"

    Synonyms

    province
26. 26noun

    a state of depression or agitation

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

27. 27noun

    (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. 28verb

    put before

    "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"

    Synonyms

    positsubmit
29. 29verb

    express in words

    "He said that he wanted to marry her"

    "tell me what is bothering you"

    Synonyms

    saytell
30. 30verb

    indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.

    "Can you express this distance in kilometers?"

    Synonyms

    express