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• STATE (noun)
Meaning:
The group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context example:
the state has lowered its income tax
Hypernyms ("state" is a kind of...):
authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "state"):
welfare state (a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.)
Soviets (the government of the Soviet Union)
Meaning:
The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
province; state
Context example:
his state is in the deep south
Hypernyms ("state" is a kind of...):
administrative district; administrative division; territorial division (a district defined for administrative purposes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "state"):
Canadian province (Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes)
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
eparchy (a province in ancient Greece)
commonwealth (the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico))
Instance hyponyms:
Buganda (a state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom)
Uttar Pradesh (a state in northern India)
Madras; Tamil Nadu (a state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras)
Gujarat; Gujerat (an industrialized state in western India that includes parts of Bombay)
Goa (a state of southwestern India; a former Portuguese colony)
Bihar (a state of northeastern India)
Andhra Pradesh (a state of southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal)
Manipur (state in northeastern India)
Karnataka; Mysore (state in southern India; formerly Mysore)
Orissa (state in eastern India on the Bay of Bengal)
West Bengal (a state in eastern India)
Adzhar; Adzharia (an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea)
Abkhaz; Abkhazia (an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea; a strong independence movement has resulted in much instability)
Soviet Socialist Republic (one of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991))
Cape of Good Hope (a province of western South Africa)
Cape Colony; Cape of Good Hope Province; Cape Province (a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814; in 1994 it was split into three new provinces of South Africa)
Transvaal (a province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers)
Free State; Orange Free State (a province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997)
Friesland (one of the northernmost provinces of the Netherlands)
Indonesian Borneo; Kalimantan (the part of Indonesia on the southern side of the island of Borneo)
Assam (state in northeastern India)
Tirol; Tyrol (a picturesque mountainous province of western Austria)
Australian state (one of the states constituting Australia)
Inner Mongolia; Nei Monggol (an autonomous region of northeastern China that was annexed by the Manchu rulers in 1635 and became an integral part of China in 1911)
Sinkiang; Xinjiang; Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (an autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan; the largest province in the People's Republic of China and the homeland of the Uighur people)
Yunnan; Yunnan province (a province of southern China)
Sichuan; Szechuan; Szechwan; Szechwan province (a populous province of south central China)
Hunan; Hunan province (a province in southeastern central China between the Nan Ling mountains and the Chang Jiang; noted for its timber and valuable mineral resources)
Hebei; Hebei province; Hopeh; Hopei (a populous province in northeastern China)
Gansu; Gansu province; Kansu (a province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persia)
Guangdong; Guangdong province; Kwangtung (a province in southern China)
Yucatan (a state of Mexico on the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula)
Campeche (a Mexican state on the eastern part of the Gulf of Campeche)
Chihuahua (a state in northern Mexico; mostly high plateau)
Bosnia (the northern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina)
Kosovo (a Serbian province in southern Serbia and Montenegro populated predominantly by Albanians)
Italian region (Italy is divided into 20 regions for administrative purposes)
Bavaria (a state in southern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory)
Lower Saxony (a state in northwestern Germany)
Tabasco (a Mexican state on the Gulf of Campeche)
Quintana Roo (a Mexican state on the eastern side of the Yucatan Peninsula)
Coahuila (a state in northern Mexico; mostly high plateau)
Holonyms ("state" is a member of...):
country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)
Meaning:
A politically organized body of people under a single government
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
body politic; res publica; nation; country; commonwealth; state; land
Context examples:
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
Hypernyms ("state" is a kind of...):
political entity; political unit (a unit with political responsibilities)
Meronyms (parts of "state"):
estate; estate of the realm (a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "state"):
ally (a friendly nation)
city state; city-state (a state consisting of a sovereign city)
great power; major power; power; superpower; world power (a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world)
sea power (a nation that possesses formidable naval strength)
suzerain (a state exercising a degree of dominion over a dependent state especially in its foreign affairs)
renegade state; rogue nation; rogue state (a state that does not respect other states in its international actions)
Reich (the German state)
foreign country (any state of which you are not a citizen)
Dominion (one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth)
developing country (a country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically)
commonwealth country (any of the countries in the British Commonwealth)
Instance hyponyms:
Eelam; Tamil Eelam (the independent state that the Tamil Tigers have fought for)
Meaning:
The way something is with respect to its main attributes
Classified under:
Nouns with no superordinates
Context examples:
the current state of knowledge / his state of health / in a weak financial state
Hypernyms ("state" is a kind of...):
attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "state"):
utilization (the state of having been made use of)
omniscience (the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge)
damnation; eternal damnation (the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell)
grace; saving grace; state of grace ((Christian theology) a state of sanctification by God; the state of one who under such divine influence)
immatureness; immaturity (not having reached maturity)
matureness; maturity (state of being mature; full development)
unification; union (the state of being joined or united or linked)
separation (the state of lacking unity)
enlargement (the state of being enlarged)
kalemia (the presence of excess potassium in the circulating blood)
physiological condition; physiological state (the state of the body or bodily functions)
flux; state of flux (a state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action)
preparation; preparedness; readiness (the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action))
forthcomingness; imminence; imminency; imminentness; impendence; impendency (the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon)
temporary state (a state that continues for a limited time)
inaction; inactiveness; inactivity (the state of being inactive)
action; activeness; activity (the state of being active)
omnipotence (the state of being omnipotent; having unlimited power)
flawlessness; ne plus ultra; perfection (the state of being without a flaw or defect)
paternity (the state of being a father)
multivalence; multivalency; polyvalence; polyvalency ((chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two)
polyvalence; polyvalency ((toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism)
plurality (the state of being plural)
neotony (the state resulting when juvenile characteristics are retained by the adults of a species)
heterozygosity (the state of being heterozygous; having two different alleles of the same gene)
homozygosity (the state of being homozygous; having two identical alleles of the same gene)
turgor ((biology) the normal rigid state of fullness of a cell or blood vessel or capillary resulting from pressure of the contents against the wall or membrane)
merchantability (the state of being fit for market; ready to be bought or sold)
annulment; revocation (the state of being cancelled or annulled)
death; destruction; end (a final state)
obligation (the state of being obligated to do or pay something)
ownership (the state or fact of being an owner)
receivership (the state of property that is in the hands of a receiver)
imperfection; imperfectness (the state or an instance of being imperfect)
integrity; unity; wholeness (an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting)
dead letter; non-issue (the state of something that has outlived its relevance)
lifelessness; motionlessness; stillness (a state of no motion or movement)
feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)
dystopia (state in which the condition of life is extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror)
utopia (ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects)
tribalism (the state of living together in tribes)
relationship (a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries)
relationship (a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection))
situation; state of affairs (the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time)
nationhood (the state of being a nation)
ground state ((physics) the lowest energy state of an atom or other particle)
conditionality (the state of being conditional)
condition; status (a state at a particular time)
condition (a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing)
ornamentation (the state of being ornamented)
medium (a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position)
cleavage (the state of being split or cleft)
cognitive state; state of mind (the state of a person's cognitive processes)
skillfulness (the state of being cognitively skillful)
natural state; state of nature; wild (a wild primitive state untouched by civilization)
isomerism (the state of being an isomer; the complex of chemical and physical phenomena characteristic of isomers)
motion (a state of change)
dependance; dependence; dependency (lack of independence or self-sufficiency)
agency; delegacy; representation (the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent)
freedom (the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints)
illumination (the degree of visibility of your environment)
conflict (a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests)
antagonism; enmity; hostility (a state of deep-seated ill-will)
disorder (a disturbance of the peace or of public order)
order (established customary state (especially of society))
unemployment (the state of being unemployed or not having a job)
degree; level; point; stage (a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process)
office; power ((of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power)
position; status (the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society)
being; beingness; existence (the state or fact of existing)
nonbeing (the state of not being)
death (the absence of life or state of being dead)
employ; employment (the state of being employed or having a job)
Meaning:
The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
Department of State; DoS; State Department; United States Department of State; State
Context example:
the Department of State was created in 1789
Hypernyms ("State" is a kind of...):
executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "State"):
Bureau of Diplomatic Security; DS (the bureau in the State Department that is responsible for the security of diplomats and embassies overseas)
Foreign Service (the part of the State Department that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world)
Bureau of Intelligence and Research; INR (an agency that is the primary source in the State Department for interpretive analyses of global developments and focal point for policy issues and activities of the Intelligence Community)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "State"):
Foggy Bottom (United States Department of State, which is housed in a building in a low-lying area of Washington near the Potomac River)
Meaning:
The territory occupied by a nation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
country; land; state
Context examples:
he returned to the land of his birth / he visited several European countries
Hypernyms ("state" is a kind of...):
administrative district; administrative division; territorial division (a district defined for administrative purposes)
Meronyms (parts of "state"):
demesne; domain; land (territory over which rule or control is exercised)
midland (the interior part of a country)
Meronyms (members of "state"):
province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)
department (the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "state"):
sultanate (country or territory ruled by a sultan)
North American country; North American nation (a country on the North American continent)
South American country; South American nation (countries occupying the South American continent)
Asian country; Asian nation (nations occupying the Asian continent)
African country; African nation (countries occupying the African continent)
European country; European nation (countries occupying the European continent)
tax haven (a country or independent region where taxes are low)
kingdom (a country with a king as head of state)
buffer country; buffer state (a small neutral state between two rival powers)
country of origin; fatherland; homeland; mother country; motherland; native land (the country where you were born)
banana republic (a small country (especially in Central America) that is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign companies and depends on one export (such as bananas))
Instance hyponyms:
New Zealand (an independent country within the British Commonwealth; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1907; known for sheep and spectacular scenery)
Palau; Republic of Palau; TT (a republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States)
Philippines; Republic of the Philippines (a republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946)
Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Christopher-Nevis; Saint Kitts and Nevis; St. Christopher-Nevis; St. Kitts and Nevis (a country on several of the Leeward Islands; located east southeast of Puerto Rico; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1983)
Mauritius; Republic of Mauritius (a parliamentary state on the island of Mauritius)
Malta; Republic of Malta (a republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1964)
Maldives; Republic of Maldives (a republic on the Maldive Islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1965)
Grenada (an island state in the West Indies in the southeastern Caribbean Sea; an independent state within the British Commonwealth)
Dutch East Indies; Indonesia; Republic of Indonesia (a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions)
Burkina Faso; Upper Volta (a desperately poor landlocked country in western Africa; was formerly Upper Volta under French rule but gained independence in 1960)
Republic of Seychelles; Seychelles (a republic on the Seychelles islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1976)
Saint Lucia; St. Lucia (a country on the island of Saint Lucia; gained independence from Great Britain in 1979)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; St. Vincent and the Grenadines (an island country in the central Windward Islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1979)
Republic of Turkey; Turkey (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923)
Friendly Islands; Kingdom of Tonga; Tonga (a monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1970)
Turkmen; Turkmenia; Turkmenistan; Turkomen (a republic in Asia east of the Caspian Sea and south of Kazakhstan and north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991)
Ukraine; Ukrayina (a republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century)
Russia; Russian Federation (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)
Russia; Soviet Union; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR (a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991)
Rus (the medieval Russian state established by Scandinavian traders in the 9th century; the capital was first in Novgorod and then in Kiev)
Solomon Islands (the southern Solomon Islands that since 1978 form an independent state in the British Commonwealth)
Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe; Sao Thome e Principe; Sao Tome and Principe; Sao Tome e Principe; St. Thomas and Principe (island nation in the South Atlantic off the West coast of Africa; achieved independence from Portugal in 1975; has enormous offshore oil reserves)
Independent State of Samoa; Samoa; Samoa i Sisifo; Western Samoa (a constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific)
New Hebrides; Republic of Vanuatu; Vanuatu (a volcanic island republic in Melanesia; independent since 1980)
Bahama Islands; Bahamas; Commonwealth of the Bahamas (island country in the Atlantic east of Florida and Cuba; a popular winter resort)
Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Trinidad and Tobago (an island republic in the West Indies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962)
Barbados (a parliamentary democracy on the island of Barbados; former British colony; a popular resort area)
Jamaica (a country on the island of Jamaica; became independent of England in 1962; much poverty; the major industry is tourism)
Dominican Republic (a republic in the West Indies; located on the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola)
Haiti; Republic of Haiti (a republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola; achieved independence from France in 1804; the poorest and most illiterate nation in the western hemisphere)
Cuba; Republic of Cuba (a communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba)
Comoros; Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros (a country on the Comoro Islands)
Ceylon; Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka (a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948)
Cape Verde; Republic of Cape Verde (an island country in the Atlantic off the coast of Senegal)
Antigua and Barbuda (a country in the northern Leeward Islands)
Cyprus; Republic of Cyprus (a country on the island of Cyprus; 80% of the people are of Greek origin and 20% or Turkish origin)
Commonwealth of Dominica; Dominica (a country on the island of Dominica)
East Timor (a former Portuguese colony that was annexed by Indonesia in 1976; voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999 and in May 2002 became an independent nation)
Independent State of Papua New Guinea; Papua New Guinea (a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea)
Nauru; Republic of Nauru (an island republic on Nauru Island; phosphate exports support the economy)
Kiribati; Republic of Kiribati (an island republic in the west central Pacific just south of the equator)
Tuvalu (a small island republic on the Tuvalu islands; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it withdrew in 1975 and became independent of the United Kingdom in 1978)
Marshall Islands; Republic of the Marshall Islands (a republic (under United States protection) on the Marshall Islands)
Federated States of Micronesia; Micronesia; TT (a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986)
Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)
Etruria (an ancient country in central Italy; assimilated by the Romans by about 200 BC)
Israel; Sion; State of Israel; Yisrael; Zion (Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine)
Fiji; Republic of Fiji (an independent state within the British Commonwealth located on the Fiji Islands)
Meaning:
A state of depression or agitation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Context example:
he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him
Hypernyms ("state" is a kind of...):
emotional state; spirit (the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection))
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
Meaning:
(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)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
state of matter; state
Context example:
the solid state of water is called ice
Hypernyms ("state" is a kind of...):
chemical phenomenon (any natural phenomenon involving chemistry (as changes to atoms or molecules))
Attribute:
gaseous (existing as or having characteristics of a gas)
liquid (existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow)
solid (of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "state"):
plasma ((physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons)
gas; gaseous state (the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container)
solid; solid state; solidness (the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape)
liquid; liquid state; liquidity; liquidness (the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility)
form; phase ((physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary)
• STATE (verb)
Meaning:
Express in words
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
say; state; tell
Context examples:
He said that he wanted to marry her / tell me what is bothering you / state your opinion / state your name
Hypernyms (to "state" is one way to...):
express; give tongue to; utter; verbalise; verbalize (articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "state"):
sum; sum up; summarise; summarize (be a summary of)
give (convey or reveal information)
explain (define)
add; append; supply (state or say further)
mention; note; observe; remark (make mention of)
declare (make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official)
declare (state emphatically and authoritatively)
get out (express with difficulty)
articulate; enunciate; vocalise; vocalize (express or state clearly)
announce; declare (announce publicly or officially)
introduce; precede; preface; premise (furnish with a preface or introduction)
answer; reply; respond (reply or respond to)
misstate (state something incorrectly)
lay out; present; represent (bring forward and present to the mind)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Sentence example:
They state that there was a traffic accident
Meaning:
Put before
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
put forward; posit; state; submit
Context example:
I submit to you that the accused is guilty
Hypernyms (to "state" is one way to...):
advise; propose; suggest (make a proposal, declare a plan for something)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Meaning:
Indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Synonyms:
express; state
Context example:
Can you express this distance in kilometers?
Hypernyms (to "state" is one way to...):
denote; refer (have as a meaning)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "state"):
vote (express a choice or opinion)
vote (express one's choice or preference by vote)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
