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state
Found in thesaurus: government, administrative division, territorial division, political entity, executive department, spirit, express, verbalize, give tongue to, suggest, refer
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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
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State
State may refer to:
Law and politics
- State (polity), an organized political community living under a single system of government
- Sovereign state, a sovereign political entity in international law, commonly referred to as a "country"
- The Estates or the States, a national assembly of the estates, a legislature
- Rechtsstaat, the legal state (constitutional state, state subordinated to law) in philosophy of law and as principle of many national constitutions
- Constituent state, a type of political subdivision of a nation
- Federated state, a constituent state that is part of a federal model and shares sovereignty with the federal government
- U.S. state, a constituent state of the United States, the most prominent example of a federated constituent state
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State
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
state
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
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essere
v.
be, exist; occur, happen; become; there is, there exists; cost
stare
v.
be; stay, remain; stand; sit; rest, lie; live
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state
v.
uvádět; tvrdit
příd.jm.
státní
n.
stav; stát; skupenství; pompa; situace
