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Meaning of 'state' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . State [ a.]
- Stately.
- Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.
2 . State [ n.]
- The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
- Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
- Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
- Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
- A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
- Estate, possession.
- A person of high rank.
- 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.
- The principal persons in a government.
- The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
- A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A statement; also, a document containing a statement.
3 . State [ v. t.]
- To set; to settle; to establish.
- 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.

Meaning of 'state' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . state [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a politically organized body of people under a single government
Example in sentence:
  • African nations;
  • an industrialized land;
  • students who had come to the nation's capitol;
  • the country's largest manufacturer;
  • the state has elected a new president
Meaning (2):
- the territory occupied by a nation
Example in sentence:
  • he returned to the land of his birth;
  • he visited several European countries
Meaning (3):
- a state of depression or agitation
Example in sentence:
  • he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him
Meaning (4):
- the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
Example in sentence:
  • his state is in the deep south
Meaning (5):
- the way something is with respect to its main attributes
Example in sentence:
  • his state of health;
  • in a weak financial state;
  • the current state of knowledge
Meaning (6):
- the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies
Example in sentence:
  • the Department of State was created in 1789
Meaning (7):
- (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)
Example in sentence:
  • the solid state of water is called ice
Meaning (8):
- the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
Example in sentence:
  • the state has lowered its income tax
9 . state [ v]
Meaning (9):
- indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.
Example in sentence:
  • Can you express this distance in kilometers?
Meaning (10):
- express in words
Example in sentence:
  • He said that he wanted to marry her;
  • state your name;
  • state your opinion;
  • tell me what is bothering you
Meaning (11):
- put before
Example in sentence:
  • I submit to you that the accused is guilty