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Definition of 'State'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) state
the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes:
the state of one's health.

2.  state
the condition of matter with respect to structure, form, phase, or the like:
water in a gaseous state.

3.  state
status, rank, or position in life; station.

4.  state
the formal or elaborate style befitting a person of wealth and high rank:
to travel in state.

5.  state
a particular condition of mind or feeling:
an excited state.

6.  state
an abnormally tense, nervous, or perturbed condition:
in a state over losing one's job.

7.  state
a politically unified people occupying a definite territory; nation.

8.  state
the territory or authority of a state.

9.  state
(sometimes cap.) any of the bodies politic or political units that together make up a federal union, as in the United States of America.

10.  state
the body politic as organized for civil rule and government:
separation of church and state.

11.  state
the sphere of the highest civil authority and administration:
affairs of state.

12.  state
the States, the United States (usu. used outside its borders).

13. (adj.) state
of or pertaining to the central civil government or authority.

14.  state
of, maintained by, or under the authority of a unit of a federal union: a state highway.

15.  state
characterized by, attended with, or involving ceremony:
a state dinner.

16.  state
used on or reserved for occasions of ceremony.

17. (v.t.) state
to declare definitely or specifically.

18.  state
to set forth formally in speech or writing.

19.  state
to set forth in proper or definite form:
to state a problem.

20.  state
to say.

21.  state
to fix or settle, as by authority.

Definition of 'State'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) state, province
the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
"his state is in the deep south"

2. (noun) state
the way something is with respect to its main attributes
"the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"

3. (noun) state
the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
"the state has lowered its income tax"

4. (noun) state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic
a politically organized body of people under a single government
"the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"

5. (noun) state of matter, state
(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"

6. (noun) state
a state of depression or agitation
"he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him"

7. (noun) country, state, land
the territory occupied by a nation
"he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"

8. (verb) Department of State, United States Department of State, State Department, State, DoS
the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies
"the Department of State was created in 1789"

9. (verb) state, say, tell
express in words
"He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name"

10. (verb) submit, state, put forward, posit
put before
"I submit to you that the accused is guilty"

11. (verb) express, state
indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.
"Can you express this distance in kilometers?"

Definition of 'State'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) state
the condition of sth
The house was in an terrible state.; the state of her health; The country is in a state of decline.

2.  state
a region of a country with its own government
the state of Ohio

3.  state
the government of a country
an enemy of the state; a communist state; state-owned businesses

4.  state
the Sates
the United States of America
my first time in the Sates

5.  state
state of mind
sb's feelings or mental condition
an unhealthy state of mind

6. (verb) state
to officially express
The regulations clearly state that this is not allowed.

7. (adjective) state
relating to or provided by a government
state television

Definition of 'State'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) State
stately

2. (adj) State
belonging to the state, or body politic; public

3. (noun) State
the circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time

4. (noun) State
rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor

5. (noun) State
condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance

6. (noun) State
appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp

7. (noun) State
a chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself

8. (noun) State
estate, possession

9. (noun) State
a person of high rank

10. (noun) State
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

11. (noun) State
the principal persons in a government

12. (noun) State
the bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland

13. (noun) State
a form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic

14. (noun) State
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

15. (noun) State
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

16. (noun) State
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

17. (noun) State
a statement; also, a document containing a statement

18. (verb) State
to set; to settle; to establish

19. (verb) State
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

Definitions of 'State'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. State
1. Condition, situation. “What's the state of your latest hack?” “It's winning away.” “The system tried to read and write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally wedged state.” The standard question “What's your state?” means “What are you doing?” or “What are you about to do?” Typical answers are “about to gronk out”, or “hungry”. Another standard question is “What's the state of the world?”, meaning “What's new?” or “What's going on?”. The more terse and humorous way of asking these questions would be “State-p?”. Another way of phrasing the first question under sense 1 would be “state-p latest hack?”.

2. Information being maintained in non-permanent memory (electronic or human).

Translation of 'State'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the condition in which a thing or person is the bad state of the roads; The room was in an untidy state; He inquired about her state of health; What a state you're in!; He was not in a fit state to take the class.
Afrikaans: toestand	Arabic: حالَه	Bulgarian: положение
Brazilian: condição	Czech: stav	German: der Zustand
Danish: tilstand; stand	Greek: κατάσταση	Estonian: olukord, seis(und), olek
Farsi: وضع	Finnish: tila	French: état
Hebrew: מַצָב	Hindi: अवस्था, स्थिति, दशा, हाला	Croatian: stanje, prilike
Hungarian: állapot	Indonesian: keadaan	Icelandic: ástand
Italian: stato	Japanese: 状態	Korean: 상태
Lithuanian: būklė, būsena, padėtis	Latvian: stāvoklis	Malay: keadaan
Dutch: toestand	Norwegian: tilstand	Polish: stan
Portuguese: condição	Romanian: stare	Russian: состояние; положение
Slovak: stav	Slovenian: stanje	Serbian: stanje
Swedish: skick, tillstånd	Thai: สภาพ	Turkish: durum
Taiwanese: 狀況	Ukrainian: стан	Urdu: حالت
Vietnamese: tình trạng, trạng thái	Chinese: 状况
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