state

nouns

the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation

"his state is in the deep south"

province, 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"

state

is a type of (narrower)

an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity

attribute

the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state

"the state has lowered its income tax"

state

is a type of (narrower)

the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit

"the government reduced taxes"; "the matter was referred to higher authorities"

authorities, government, regime

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"

body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica, 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"

state, state of matter

a state of depression or agitation

"he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him"

state

domain usage

a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

colloquialism

is a type of (narrower)

the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection)

"his emotional state depended on her opinion"; "he was in good spirits"; "his spirit rose"

emotional state, spirit