English > state: 11 senses > noun 1, location| Meaning | The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation. |
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| Example | "his state is in the deep south" |
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| Synonym | province |
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| Instances | Abkhaz, Abkhazia | An autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea |
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| Adzhar, Adzharia | An autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea |
| Andhra Pradesh | A state of southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal |
| Assam | state in northeastern India |
| Bavaria | A state in southern Germany famous for its beer |
| Bihar | A state of northeastern India |
| Bosnia | The northern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina |
| Buganda | A state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom |
| Campeche | A Mexican state on the eastern part of the Gulf of Campeche |
| Cape Province, Cape of Good Hope Province, Cape Colony | A former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded / ceded to Great Britain in 1814 |
| Cape of Good Hope | A province of western South Africa |
| Chihuahua | A state in northern Mexico |
| Coahuila | A state in northern Mexico |
| Free State, Orange Free State | A province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers |
| Friesland | One of the northernmost provinces of the Netherlands |
| Gansu, Kansu, Gansu province | A province in north-central China |
| Goa | A state of southwestern India |
| Guangdong, Kwangtung, Guangdong province | A province in southern China |
| Gujarat, Gujerat | A region of western India to the north of Bombay (bordering the Arabian Sea) where Gujarati is spoken |
| Hebei, Hopei, Hopeh, Hebei province | A populous province in northeastern China |
| Hunan, Hunan province | A province in southeastern central China between the Nan Ling mountains and the Chang Jiang |
| Indonesian Borneo, Kalimantan | The part of Indonesia on the southern side of the island of Borneo |
| Inner Mongolia, Nei Monggol | An autonomous region of northeastern China that was annexed by the Manchu rulers in 1635 and became an integral part of China in 1911 |
| Karnataka, Mysore | state in southern India |
| Kosovo | A Serbian province in southern Serbia and Montenegro populated predominantly by Albanians |
| Lower Saxony | A state in northwestern Germany |
| Maharashtra | A historical area in west-central India |
| Manipur | state in northeastern India |
| Orissa | state in eastern India on the Bay of Bengal |
| Quintana Roo | A Mexican state on the eastern side of the Yucatan Peninsula |
| Sikkim | A geographical area and former kingdom in northeastern India in the Himalaya Mountains between Nepal and Bhutan |
| Szechwan, Sichuan, Szechuan, Szechwan province | A populous province of south central China |
| Tabasco | A Mexican state on the Gulf of Campeche |
| Tamil Nadu, Madras | A state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh) |
| Transvaal | A province of northeastern South Africa originally / originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu |
| Tyrol, Tirol | A picturesque mountainous province of western Austria and northern Italy |
| Uttar Pradesh | A state in northern India |
| West Bengal | A state in eastern India |
| Xinjiang, Sinkiang, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region | An autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan |
| Yucatan | A state of Mexico on the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula |
| Yunnan, Yunnan province | A province of southern China |
| Member of | country, state, land | The territory occupied by a nation |
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| Narrower | American state | One of the 50 states of the United States |
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| Australian state | One of the several states constituting Australia |
| Canadian province | Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes |
| Italian region | Italy is divided into 20 regions for administrative purposes |
| Malaysian state | One of the several states constituting Malaysia |
| Soviet Socialist Republic | One of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991) |
| commonwealth | The official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) |
| eparchy | A province in ancient Greece |
| Broader | administrative district, administrative division, territorial division | A district defined for administrative purposes |
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| Spanish | estado federal, estado, país, provincia, provincias |
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| Catalan | estat federal, estat, provincia, província |
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English > state: 11 senses > noun 2, Tops| Meaning | The way something is with respect to its main attributes. |
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| Examples | - "the current state of knowledge"
- "his state of health"
- "in a weak financial state"
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| Narrower | action, activity, activeness | The state of being active |
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| being, beingness, existence, face of the earth | The state or fact of existing |
| cleavage | The state of being split or cleft |
| condition, status | A state at a particular time |
| condition | A mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing |
| conditionality | The state of being conditional |
| conflict | A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests |
| damnation, eternal damnation | The state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell |
| dead letter, non-issue | The state of something that has outlived its relevance |
| death | The absence of life or state of being dead |
| degree, level, stage, point | A specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process |
| dependence, dependance, dependency | The state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else |
| disorder | A disturbance of the peace or of public order |
| dystopia | state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror |
| employment, employ | The state of being employed or having a job |
| end, destruction, death | A final / final / final state |
| enlargement | The state of being enlarged |
| feeling | The experiencing of affective and emotional states |
| flux, state of flux | A state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action |
| freedom | The condition of being free |
| grace, saving grace, state of grace | (Christian theology) a state of sanctification by God |
| ground state | (physics) the lowest energy state of an atom or other particle |
| heterozygosity | The state of being heterozygous |
| homozygosity | The state of being homozygous |
| hostility, enmity, antagonism | A state of deep-seated ill-will |
| illumination | The degree of visibility of your environment |
| immaturity, immatureness | not having reached maturity |
| imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency, forthcomingness | The state of being imminent and liable to happen / happen / happen soon |
| imperfection, imperfectness | The state or an instance of being imperfect |
| inaction, inactivity, inactiveness | The state of being inactive |
| integrity, unity, wholeness | An undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting |
| isomerism | The state of being an isomer |
| kalemia | The presence of excess potassium in the circulating blood |
| maturity, matureness | state of being mature / mature |
| medium | A state that is intermediate between extremes |
| merchantability | The state of being fit for market |
| motion | A state of change |
| motionlessness, stillness, lifelessness | A state of no motion / motion or movement |
| nationhood | The state of being a nation |
| neotony | The state resulting when juvenile characteristics / characteristics are retained by the adults of a species |
| nonbeing | The state of not being |
| obligation | The state of being obligated to do or pay something |
| office, power | (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power |
| omnipotence | The state of being omnipotent |
| omniscience | The state of being omniscient |
| order | Established customary state (especially of society) |
| ornamentation | The state of being ornamented |
| ownership | The state or fact of being an owner |
| paternity | The state of being a father |
| perfection, flawlessness, ne plus ultra | The state of being without a flaw or defect / defect / defect / defect |
| plurality | The state of being plural |
| polyvalence, polyvalency, multivalence, multivalency | (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two |
| polyvalence, polyvalency | (toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism |
| readiness, preparedness, preparation | The state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action) |
| receivership | The state of property that is in the hands of a receiver |
| relationship | A state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection) |
| relationship | A state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries |
| representation, delegacy, agency | The state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent |
| revocation, annulment | The state of being cancelled or annulled |
| separation | The state of lacking unity |
| situation, state of affairs | The general state of things |
| skillfulness | The state of being cognitively skillful |
| status, position | The relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society |
| technicality | The state of being technical as in the use of technical terms or methods |
| temporary state | A state that continues for a limited time |
| tribalism | The state of living together in tribes |
| turgor | (biology) the normal rigid state of fullness of a cell or blood vessel or capillary resulting from pressure of the contents against the wall or membrane |
| unemployment | The state of being unemployed or not having a job |
| union, unification | The state of being joined or united or linked |
| utilization | The state of having been made use of |
| utopia | ideally perfect state |
| wild, natural state, state of nature | A wild primitive state untouched by civilization |
| Broader | attribute | An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity |
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| Spanish | estado |
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| Catalan | estat |
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English > state: 11 senses > noun 4, group| Meaning | A politically organized body of people under a single government. |
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| Example | "the state has elected a new president" |
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| Synonyms | nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic |
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| Instances | Eelam, Tamil Eelam | The independent state that the Tamil Tigers have fought for |
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| Parts | estate of the realm, estate, the three estates | 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 |
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| Narrower | Dominion | One of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth |
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| Reich | The German state |
| ally | A friendly nation |
| city state, city-state | A state consisting of a sovereign city |
| commonwealth country | Any of the countries in the British Commonwealth |
| developing country | A country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically |
| foreign country | Any state of which one is not a citizen |
| rogue state, renegade state, rogue nation | A state that does not respect other states in its international actions |
| sea power | A nation that possesses formidable naval strength |
| suzerain | A state exercising a degree of dominion over a dependent state especially in its foreign / foreign affairs |
| world power, major power, great power, power, superpower | A state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world |
| Broader | political unit, political entity | A unit with political responsibilities |
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| Spanish | estado, nación, país, república, res publica |
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| Catalan | estat, nació, país, república, res publica, terra |
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| Adjectives | civil | of or occurring within the state / state or between or among citizens of the state |
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English > state: 11 senses > noun 5, state| Meaning | (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids / liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container). |
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| Example | "the solid state of water is called ice" |
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| Synonym | state of matter |
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| Category | chemistry, chemical science | The science of matter |
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| Attributes | gaseous | Existing as or having characteristics / characteristics of a gas |
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| liquid | Existing as or having characteristics / characteristics of a liquid / liquid |
| solid | Of definite shape and volume |
| Narrower | gas, gaseous state | The state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by |
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| liquid, liquidness, liquidity, liquid state | 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 | (physical chemistry) a distinct / distinct / distinct state of matter in a system |
| plasma | (physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid / liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors |
| solid, solidness, solid state | The state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress |
| Broader | chemical phenomenon | Any natural phenomenon involving chemistry (as changes to atoms or molecules) |
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| Spanish | estado de la materia, estado físico |
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| Catalan | estat de la matèria |
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English > state: 11 senses > noun 7, location| Meaning | The territory occupied by a nation. |
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| Synonyms | country, land |
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| Instances | Antigua and Barbuda | A country in the northern Leeward Islands |
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| Australia, Commonwealth of Australia | A nation occupying the whole / whole of the Australian continent |
| Bahamas, Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Bahama Islands | island country in the Atlantic to the east of Florida and Cuba |
| Barbados | A parliamentary democracy on the island of Barbados |
| Burkina Faso, Upper Volta | A desperately poor landlocked country in western Africa |
| Cape Verde, Republic of Cape Verde | An island country in the Atlantic off the coast of Senegal |
| Comoros, Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros | A country on the Comoro Islands |
| Cuba, Republic of Cuba | A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba |
| Cyprus, Republic of Cyprus | A country on the island of Cyprus |
| Dominica, Commonwealth of Dominica | A country on the island of Dominica |
| Dominican Republic | A republic in the West Indies |
| East Timor | A former Portuguese colony that was annexed by Indonesia in 1976 |
| Etruria | An ancient country in central Italy |
| Fiji, Republic of Fiji | An independent state within the British Commonwealth located on the Fiji Islands |
| Grenada | An island state in the West Indies in the southeastern Caribbean Sea |
| Haiti, Republic of Haiti | A republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola |
| Indonesia, Republic of Indonesia, Dutch East Indies | A republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands |
| Israel, State of Israel, Yisrael, Zion, Sion | Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean |
| Jamaica | A country on the island of Jamaica |
| Kiribati, Republic of Kiribati | An island republic in the west central Pacific just to the south of the equator |
| Maldives, Republic of Maldives | A republic on the Maldive Islands |
| Malta, Republic of Malta | A republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean |
| Marshall Islands, Republic of the Marshall Islands | A republic (under United States protection) on the Marshall Islands |
| Mauritius, Republic of Mauritius | A parliamentary state on the island of Mauritius |
| Micronesia, Federated States of Micronesia, TT | A country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States |
| Nauru, Republic of Nauru | An island republic on Nauru Island |
| New Zealand | An independent country within the British Commonwealth |
| Palau, Republic of Palau, TT | A republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States |
| Papua New Guinea, Independent State of Papua New Guinea | A parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea |
| Philippines, Republic of the Philippines | A republic on the Philippine Islands |
| Rus | The medieval Russian state established by Scandinavian traders in the 9th century |
| Russia, Russian Federation | A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis, Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Christopher-Nevis, St. Christopher-Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis | A country on several of the Leeward Islands |
| Saint Lucia, St. Lucia | A country on the island of Saint Lucia |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Vincent and the Grenadines | An island country in the central Windward Islands |
| Samoa, Independent State of Samoa, Western Samoa, Samoa i Sisifo | A constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific |
| Sao Tome and Principe, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Sao Tome e Principe, Sao Thome e Principe, St. Thomas and Principe | island nation in the South Atlantic off the west coast of Africa |
| Seychelles, Republic of Seychelles | A republic on the Seychelles islands |
| Solomon Islands | The southern Solomon Islands that since 1978 form an independent state in the British Commonwealth |
| Soviet Union, Russia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR | A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia |
| Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Ceylon | A republic on the island of Ceylon |
| Tonga, Kingdom of Tonga, Friendly Islands | A monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific |
| Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago | An island republic in the West Indies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela |
| Turkey, Republic of Turkey | A Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans |
| Turkmenistan, Turkomen, Turkmen, Turkmenia | A republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran |
| Tuvalu | A small island republic on the Tuvalu islands |
| Ukraine, Ukrayina | A republic in southeastern Europe |
| Vanuatu, Republic of Vanuatu, New Hebrides | A volcanic island republic in Melanesia |
| Members | department | The territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France) |
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| state, province | The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation |
| Parts | domain, demesne, land | territory over which rule or control is exercised |
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| midland | The interior part of a country |
| Narrower | African country, African nation | Any one of the countries occupying the African continent |
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| Asian country, Asian nation | Any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent |
| European country, European nation | Any one of the countries occupying the European continent |
| North American country, North American nation | Any country on the North American continent |
| South American country, South American nation | Any one of the countries occupying the South American continent |
| banana republic | A small country (especially in Central America) that is politically unstable / unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign companies and depends on one export (such as bananas) |
| buffer state, buffer country | A small neutral state between two rival powers |
| fatherland, homeland, motherland, mother country, country of origin, native land | The country where you were born |
| kingdom | A country with a king as head of state |
| sultanate | country or territory ruled by a sultan |
| tax haven | A country or independent region where taxes are low |
| Broader | administrative district, administrative division, territorial division | A district defined for administrative purposes |
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| Spanish | estado, nación, país, tierra |
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| Catalan | estat, nació, país, terra |
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English > state: 11 senses > verb 1, communication| Meaning | Express in words / words. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
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| Model | They state that there was a traffic accident |
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| Examples | - "state your opinion"
- "state your name"
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| Synonyms | say, tell |
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| Narrower | add, append, supply | state or say further |
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| announce, declare | announce publicly or officially |
| answer, reply, respond | React verbally |
| articulate, enunciate, vocalize, vocalise | Express or state clearly |
| declare | state emphatically and authoritatively |
| declare | make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official |
| explain | define |
| get out | Express with difficulty |
| give | convey or reveal information |
| misstate | state something incorrectly |
| note, observe, mention, remark | make mention of |
| precede, preface, premise, introduce | Furnish with a preface or introduction |
| present, represent, lay out | bring forward and present to the mind |
| summarize, summarise, sum, sum up | Be a summary of |
| Broader | express, verbalize, verbalise, utter, give tongue to | articulate |
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| Similar to | say | state as one's opinion or judgement |
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| Spanish | afirmar, contar, decir, declarar, manifestar, sentenciar |
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| Catalan | afirmar, declarar, dir, manifestar, sentenciar |
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| Nouns | statement | a message that is stated or declared |
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| statement | the act of affirming / affirming or asserting or stating something |
