states

Noun

• the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
• the way something is with respect to its main attributes
• the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
• a politically organized body of people under a single government
• (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)
• a state of depression or agitation
• the territory occupied by a nation
• the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies
• plural of state

Verb

• express in words
• put before
• indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.
• third-person singular simple present indicative of state

Synonyms

body politic, commonwealth, country, Department of State, DoS, express, land, nation, posit, province, put forward, res publica, say, State, state, State Department, state of matter, submit, tell, United States Department of State