Langtolang Multilingual Dictionary

NOUN 4

1. the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)

2. 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”
   Synonymsstatenationcountrylandres publicabody politic

3. a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another

4. a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

   Synonymsdemocracyrepublic