State meaning
State is defined as a territory with its own government and borders within a larger country.
An example of a state is California.
noun
State means to speak or say something.
An example of state is when you say your name.
verb
Owned and operated by a state.
State universities.
adjective
To set forth in words; declare.
verb
Ceremony; pomp.
Foreign leaders dining in state at the White House.
noun
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The sphere of highest governmental authority and administration.
Matters of state.
noun
The definition of a state is your current status or condition.
An example of state is when you are dirty and sad.
noun
Condition as regards physical structure, constitution, internal form, stage or phase of existence, etc.
Liquid state.
noun
(1) In object-oriented programming, the state of an object is the combination of the original values in the object plus any modifications made to them.
The political organization constituting the basis of civil government.
Church and state.
noun
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Of or controlled, maintained, etc. by the government or a state.
adjective
A polity.
- A political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy, for example one of the fifty United States. See also Province.
noun
Of or relating to a body politic or to an internally autonomous territorial or political unit constituting a federation under one government.
A monarch dealing with state matters; the department that handles state security.
adjective
To fix or establish by specifying.
At the stated hour.
verb
The condition of a physical system with regard to phase, form, composition, or structure.
Ice is the solid state of water.
noun
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A set of circumstances or attributes characterizing a person or thing at a given time; way or form of being; condition.
A state of poverty.
noun
A particular mental or emotional condition.
A state of bliss.
noun
Any of the territorial and political units that together constitute a federal government, as in the U.S.
noun
Foreign policy.
Secretary of State.
noun
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Of, for, or characteristic of occasions of great ceremony; formal; ceremonial.
adjective
A condition or mode of being, as with regard to circumstances.
noun
A condition of being in a stage or form, as of structure, growth, or development.
noun
A mental or emotional condition.
noun
The condition of a physical system with regard to phase, form, composition, or structure.
noun
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(anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
noun
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus.
- (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far.
- (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint.
A state of being; a state of emergency.
noun
High social standing or circumstance.
- The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol.
- Rank; condition; quality.
- Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
- A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
noun
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(often with definite article) The current governing polity under which the speaker lives.
noun
in (or into) a state
- In (or into) a condition of agitation or excitement.
idiom
lie in state
- To be displayed formally to the public before burial.
idiom
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the States
- The United States.
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
in (<i>or</i> into) a state
lie in state
the States
Origin of state
- Middle English from Old French estat from Latin status stā- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Wiktionary