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state, n.
(states)
freq. cnt. 192
more info the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
<noun.location>   freq. cnt.: 112 freq. cnt.: 108 freq. cnt.: 4

province state

sample sentences

"his state is in the deep south"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
provincial provincial
semantic pointers
hypernym
administrative district, administrative division, territorial division
hyponym
commonwealth eparchy American state Italian region Canadian province Australian state Malaysian state Soviet Socialist Republic
member holonym
country, land, state
instance hyponym
Guangdong, Kwangtung, Guangdong province Gansu, Kansu, Gansu province Hebei, Hopei, Hopeh, Hebei province Hunan, Hunan province Szechwan, Sichuan, Szechuan, Szechwan province Yunnan, Yunnan province Xinjiang, Sinkiang, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Inner Mongolia, Nei Monggol Yucatan Campeche Chihuahua Coahuila Quintana Roo Tabasco Lower Saxony Bavaria Kosovo Bosnia Tyrol, Tirol Assam Karnataka, Mysore Manipur Sikkim Andhra Pradesh Bihar Goa Gujarat, Gujerat Tamil Nadu, Madras Uttar Pradesh Maharashtra Orissa West Bengal Indonesian Borneo, Kalimantan Friesland Free State, Orange Free State Transvaal Cape Province, Cape of Good Hope Province, Cape Colony Cape of Good Hope Abkhaz, Abkhazia Adzhar, Adzharia Buganda
more info the way something is with respect to its main attributes
<noun.Tops>   freq. cnt.: 39 freq. cnt.: 39

state

sample sentences

"the current state of knowledge"
"his state of health"
"in a weak financial state"
semantic pointers
hypernym
attribute
hyponym
feeling skillfulness cleavage medium ornamentation condition condition, status conditionality ground state nationhood situation, state of affairs relationship relationship tribalism utopia dystopia wild, natural state, state of nature isomerism stage, degree, point, level power, office status, position existence, being, beingness, face of the earth nonbeing death employment, employ unemployment order disorder hostility, enmity, antagonism conflict illumination freedom representation, delegacy, agency dependence, dependency, dependance motion motionlessness, stillness, lifelessness dead letter, non-issue activity, action, activeness inaction, inactivity, inactiveness temporary state imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency, forthcomingness readiness, preparedness, preparation flux, state of flux kalemia enlargement separation union, unification maturity, matureness immaturity, immatureness grace, saving grace, state of grace damnation, eternal damnation omniscience omnipotence perfection, flawlessness, ne plus ultra unity, integrity, wholeness imperfection, imperfectness receivership ownership obligation end, death, destruction revocation, annulment merchantability turgor homozygosity heterozygosity neotony plurality polyvalence, polyvalency polyvalence, polyvalency, multivalence, multivalency paternity utilization technicality
more info the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
<noun.group>   freq. cnt.: 24 freq. cnt.: 24

state

sample sentences

"the state has lowered its income tax"
semantic pointers
hypernym
government, authorities, regime
hyponym
Soviets welfare state
more info a politically organized body of people under a single government
<noun.group>   freq. cnt.: 125 freq. cnt.: 68 freq. cnt.: 33 freq. cnt.: 21 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1

body politic commonwealth country land nation res publica state

sample sentences

"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"
semantic pointers
hyponym
commonwealth country developing country Dominion foreign country Reich rogue state, renegade state, rogue nation suzerain sea power great power, power, world power, major power, superpower city state, city-state ally
part meronym
estate of the realm, estate, the three estates
hypernym
political unit, political entity
instance hyponym
Eelam, Tamil Eelam
more info the territory occupied by a nation
<noun.location>   freq. cnt.: 36 freq. cnt.: 29 freq. cnt.: 7

country land state

sample sentences

"he returned to the land of his birth"
"he visited several European countries"
semantic pointers
hypernym
administrative district, administrative division, territorial division
hyponym
banana republic native land, homeland, motherland, mother country, fatherland, country of origin buffer state, buffer country kingdom tax haven European country, European nation African country, African nation Asian country, Asian nation South American country, South American nation North American country, North American nation sultanate
member meronym
department state, province
part meronym
land, domain, demesne midland
instance hyponym
Antigua and Barbuda Cape Verde, Republic of Cape Verde Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Ceylon Comoros, Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros Cuba, Republic of Cuba Haiti, Republic of Haiti Dominican Republic Jamaica Barbados Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago Cyprus, Republic of Cyprus Dominica, Commonwealth of Dominica East Timor Fiji, Republic of Fiji Israel, State of Israel, Yisrael, Zion, Sion Etruria Australia, Commonwealth of Australia Micronesia, Federated States of Micronesia, TT Marshall Islands, Republic of the Marshall Islands Tuvalu Kiribati, Republic of Kiribati Nauru, Republic of Nauru Papua New Guinea, Independent State of Papua New Guinea Bahamas, Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Bahama Islands Burkina Faso, Upper Volta Indonesia, Republic of Indonesia, Dutch East Indies Grenada Maldives, Republic of Maldives Malta, Republic of Malta Mauritius, Republic of Mauritius New Zealand Palau, Republic of Palau, TT Philippines, Republic of the Philippines Saint Kitts and Nevis, Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Christopher-Nevis, St. Christopher-Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia, St. Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa, Independent State of Samoa, Western Samoa, Samoa i Sisifo Sao Tome and Principe, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Sao Tome e Principe, Sao Thome e Principe, St. Thomas and Principe Seychelles, Republic of Seychelles Solomon Islands Rus Soviet Union, Russia, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR Russia, Russian Federation Ukraine, Ukrayina Turkmenistan, Turkomen, Turkmen, Turkmenia Tonga, Kingdom of Tonga, Friendly Islands Turkey, Republic of Turkey Vanuatu, Republic of Vanuatu, New Hebrides
more info a state of depression or agitation
<noun.state>

state

sample sentences

"he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him"
semantic pointers
domain of synset (usage)
colloquialism
hypernym
spirit, emotional state
more info (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)
<noun.state>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

state state of matter

sample sentences

"the solid state of water is called ice"
semantic pointers
attribute
solid liquid gaseous
domain of synset (topic)
chemistry, chemical science
hypernym
chemical phenomenon
hyponym
phase, form liquid, liquidness, liquidity, liquid state solid, solidness, solid state gas, gaseous state plasma