State (IPA: /ˈsteɪt/)
| State (n.) |
The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time. |
| State (n.) |
Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor. |
| State (n.) |
Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance. |
| State (n.) |
Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp. |
| State (n.) |
A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself. |
| State (n.) |
Estate, possession. |
| State (n.) |
A person of high rank. |
| State (n.) |
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. |
| State (n.) |
The principal persons in a government. |
| State (n.) |
The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland. |
| State (n.) |
A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic. |
| State (n.) |
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. |
| State (n.) |
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. |
| State (n.) |
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. |
| State (a.) |
Stately. |
| State (a.) |
Belonging to the state, or body politic; public. |
| State (v. t.) |
To set; to settle; to establish. |
| State (v. t.) |
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. |
| State (n.) |
A statement; also, a document containing a statement. |
| State |
Organised community living under a system of government; either a sovereign state, constituent state, or federated state |
| State |
In functional analysis, a positive linear functional of norm 1 |
| State |
Abstract term that denotes the presence of stable values of a set of variables of an object |
| State |
Print made by a permanent change to a matrix |
| State |
Term in Catholic theology with various meanings |
| State Synonyms |
Country, Land |
| State Synonyms |
DoS, United States Department Of State, State, State Department, Department Of State |
| State Synonyms |
Nation, Land, Body Politic, Res Publica, Commonwealth, Country |
| State Synonyms |
Province |
| State Synonyms |
State Of Matter |
| State Synonyms |
Express |
| State Synonyms |
Tell, Say |
| State Synonyms |
Put Forward, Submit, Posit |
| State (Last Name / Surname) |
State is the #43,006 most common last name / surname from the 2010 United States Census. The census reported that 503 people had that surname. |
| Translations |
State in Spanish |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " [G]overnment even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one" - Government |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "A black belt is nothing more than a belt that goes around your waist. Being a black belt is a state of mind and attitude." - Martial arts |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "A sound Mind in a sound Body, is a short but full description of a happy State in this World." - Happiness |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world." - John Locke |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation." - Conservatism |
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