State
41state — The legal notion of the state is that is a political association that establishes sovereign jurisdiction within defined territorial borders. The term ‘country’ usually refers to a state’s territory and population, rather than its government.… …
42state — Synonyms and related words: Babylonian splendor, Everyman, John Doe, Kreis, Public, affirm, air, allege, ally, announce, annunciate, archbishopric, archdiocese, archduchy, archdukedom, argue, arrondissement, articulate, assert, assever,… …
43state — 1. noun /steɪt/ a) Any sovereign polity. A government. Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. b) A political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy, for example one of the fifty United States. See also …
44state — A condition, situation, or status. [L. status, condition, s.] absent s. SYN: dreamy s.. activated s. SYN: excited s.. anxiety tension s. a milder form of an anxiety disorder. See anxiety disorders, under disorder …
45state — metastable state steady state transient state …
46state — n British a mess, disaster. This word became an all purpose vogue term in London work ing class speech of the early 1970s. The original notion of to be in a (bit of a) state was transformed so that state (two and eight in rhyming slang) came to… …
47state — The point at which a graphic artist makes a number of prints from his block, plate, stone or screen. If he alters his print design at all, this first series of impressions is called the first state. A second series, made after the design… …
48state — I noun 1) the state of the economy Syn: condition, shape, position, predicament, plight 2) an autonomous state Syn: country, nation, land, kingdom, realm, power …
49State — This interesting and unusual name is of Anglo Saxon origin, and is a topographical surname for someone who lived by a landing place, on the banks of a river or estuary, on the shore. The name derives from the Old English pre 7th Century word… …
50state — [13] State comes, partly via Old French estat (source of English estate), from Latin status ‘way of standing, condition, position’, which was formed from the same base as stāre ‘stand’ (a distant relative of English stand). The word’s political… …
