English > state: 11 senses > noun 1, locationMeaning | 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, TopsMeaning | 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, groupMeaning | 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, stateMeaning | (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, locationMeaning | 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, communicationMeaning | 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 |