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21State — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:State >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 state state condition category estate lot ease trim mood pickle plight temper Sgm: N 1 aspect aspect &c.(appearance) 448 …
22state — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English stat, from Anglo French & Latin; Anglo French estat, from Latin status, from stare to stand more at stand Date: 13th century 1. a. mode or condition of being < a state of readiness > b …
23state — A political community organized under one government. As the biblical historians looked back, they understood Israel to have been a theocratic state; that is, the power of the monarchy was limited by the tradition of divine laws and the voice of… …
24state — 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.… …
25state — 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,… …
26state — 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 …
27state — 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 …
28State — 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… …
29state — [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… …
30state — See: LIE IN STATE …
