state

Verb

• indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.
  • Can you express this distance in kilometers?
    

• put before
  • I submit to you that the accused is guilty
    

• express in words
  • He said that he wanted to marry her
    
  • tell me what is bothering you
    
  • state your opinion
    
  • state your name
    

Noun

• the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies
  • the Department of State was created in 1789
    

• the territory occupied by a nation
  • he returned to the land of his birth
    
  • he visited several European countries
    

• a state of depression or agitation
  • he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him
    

• (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)
  • the solid state of water is called ice
    

• a politically organized body of people under a single government
  • 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
    

• the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
  • the state has lowered its income tax
    

• the way something is with respect to its main attributes
  • the current state of knowledge
    
  • his state of health
    
  • in a weak financial state
    

• the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
  • his state is in the deep south
    

Related words

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