state

v. say, speak; express verbally or in writing; announce, declare firmly

adj. governmental, bureaucratic; majestic, dignified

n. condition; stage, phase; mood, emotional condition; splendor; overly excited or distressed; nation; internally autonomous territorial or political unit joined with others under a sovereign government

A state is a political association with effective dominion over a geographic area. It usually includes the set of institutions that claim the authority to make the rules that govern the people of the society in that territory, though its status as a state often depends in part on being recognized by a number of other states as having internal and external sovereignty over it. In sociology, the state is normally identified with these institutions: in Max Weber's influential definition, it is that organization that has a "monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory," which may include the armed forces, civil service or state bureaucracy, courts, and police.
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Noun
1. the federal department in the UnitedStates that sets and maintains foreign policies; "the Department of State was created in 1789"
(synonym) Department of State, State Department, DoS
(hypernym) executive department
(part-meronym) Bureau of Diplomatic Security, DS

Noun
1. the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state; "the state has lowered its income tax"
(hypernym) government, authorities, regime
(hyponym) Soviets
2. the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south"
(synonym) province
(hypernym) administrative district, administrative division, territorial division
(hyponym) commonwealth
(member-holonym) country, land
3. 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"
(synonym) nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic
(hypernym) political unit
(hyponym) Dominion
(part-meronym) estate, estate of the realm
4. the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"
(hyponym) skillfulness
5. the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
(synonym) country, land
(hypernym) administrative district, administrative division, territorial division
(hyponym) banana republic
(member-meronym) department
(part-meronym) domain, demesne, land
6. a state of depression or agitation; "he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him"
(hypernym) emotional state, spirit
(classification) colloquialism
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); "the solid state of water is called ice"
(synonym) state of matter
(hypernym) chemical phenomenon
(hyponym) phase, form
(attribute) solid
(classification) chemistry, chemical science
Verb
1. express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name"
(synonym) say, tell
(hypernym) express, verbalize, verbalise, utter, give tongue to
(hyponym) present, represent, lay out
(verb-group) say
(derivation) affirmation, assertion, statement
2. put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
(synonym) submit, put forward, posit
(hypernym) propose, suggest, advise
(derivation) affirmation, assertion, statement
3. indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.; "Can you express this distance in kilometers?"
(synonym) express
(hypernym) denote, refer
(hyponym) vote

v. be, exist; occur, happen; become; there is, there exists; cost

v. be; stay, remain; stand; sit; rest, lie; live

(a.)
Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.
  

(a.)
Stately.
  

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

(n.)
A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.
  

(n.)
A person of high rank.
  

(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.
  

(n.)
A statement; also, a document containing a statement.
  

(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.
  

(n.)
Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
  

(n.)
Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
  

(n.)
Estate, possession.
  

(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.
  

(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.
  

(n.)
Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
  

(n.)
The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
  

(n.)
The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
  

(n.)
The principal persons in a government.
  

(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.
  

(v. t.)
To set; to settle; to establish.