State
The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
Estate, possession.
A person of high rank.
Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6.
The principal persons in a government.
The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.
A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.
In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.
Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
Stately.
Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.
To set; to settle; to establish.
To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc.
A statement; also, a document containing a statement.
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State Quotations
I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
Albert Einstein
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
Buddha
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.
Benjamin Franklin
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson
If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
Ronald Reagan
If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.
Ronald Reagan
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy
State Translations
state in Afrikaans is toestand, staat, verklaar, situasie
state in Dutch is verzekeren, beweren
state in Finnish is tila, valtio, valtakunta
state in Italian is esporre, posizione, asserzioni
state in Latin is civitas, res publica
state in Portuguese is estado
state in Spanish is especificar, declarar, estado, exponer, estacion
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