Definitions for State

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State state

Spelling: [steyt]

IPA: /steɪt/

State is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in State (aestt).

Definitions for State

noun

1. the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes:
2. the condition of matter with respect to structure, form, constitution, phase, or the like:
3. status, rank, or position in life; station:
4. the style of living befitting a person of wealth and high rank:
5. a particular condition of mind or feeling:
6. an abnormally tense, nervous, or perturbed condition:
7. a politically unified people occupying a definite territory; nation.
8. the territory, or one of the territories, of a government.
9. (sometimes initial capital letter) any of the bodies politic which together make up a federal union, as in the United States of America.
10. the body politic as organized for civil rule and government (distinguished from church).
11. the operations or activities of a central civil government:
12. (initial capital letter). Also called State Department. Informal. the Department of State.
13. Printing. a set of copies of an edition of a publication which differ from others of the same printing because of additions, corrections, or transpositions made during printing or at any time before publication.
14. the States, Informal. the United States (usually used outside its borders):

Idioms

1. lie in state, (of a corpse) to be exhibited publicly with honors before burial:

adjective

1. of or relating to the central civil government or authority.
2. made, maintained, or chartered by or under the authority of one of the commonwealths that make up a federal union:
3. characterized by, attended with, or involving ceremony:
4. used on or reserved for occasions of ceremony.

verb (used with object)

1. to declare definitely or specifically:
2. to set forth formally in speech or writing:
3. to set forth in proper or definite form:
4. to say.
5. to fix or settle, as by authority.

Origin of State

1175-1225; Middle English stat (noun), partly aphetic variant of estat estate, partly Latin status condition (see status); in defs 7-11 L

Examples for State

But if you have a hearing and you prove that someone is mature enough, well then that state interest evaporates.

But can the safety of the state be secured by merely excluding the vicious poor?

Duke was a state representative whose neo-Nazi alliances were disgorged in media reports during his run for governor in 1991.

They now state they are only horses' bones, and not men's, as first stated.

Well, if you have any business, you may state it at once, as I am quite busy.

At the time (and until 1913), U.S. senators were not popularly elected but were selected by the state legislature.

The "state," as a matter of fact, is quite a recent invention.

This week, Florida became the 36th state to allow same-sex marriage.

The state exists only as an integral portion of the United states.

Dental leaders barnstormed the state, and cities began to fluoridate.