state

Meanings

Noun

• A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
• High social standing or circumstance.
• A polity.
• An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
• The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.

Verb

• To declare to be a fact.
• To make known.

Adjective

• Stately.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• absolute state
• Bayou State
• Bear State
• Bell state
• Big Bend State
• Blackwater State
• Blue Hen State
• blue state
• bound state
• buffer state
• cat state
• Chinook State
• city state
• client state
• cluster state
• continental state
• convention state
• Cracker State
• Creole State
• deep state
• end state
• excited state
• failed state
• federal state
• feudatory state
• Flower State
• flyover state
• fogue state
• free state
• Gem State
• graph state
• green state
• ground state
• hole state
• iron state
• island state
• landlocked state
• link state
• Lumber State
• member state
• nanny state
• narco state
• night watchman state
• party state
• police state
• princely state
• pseudostate
• puppet state
• purple state
• quantum state
• red state
• rogue state
• rump state
• save state
• sea state
• solid state
• sovereign state
• steady state
• swing state
• transition state
• unitary state
• upstate
• vassal state
• wait state
• welfare state

Origin

• Middle English (as a noun); adopted c. 1200 from both Old French estat and Latin status ("manner of standing, attitude, position, carriage, manner, dress, apparel; and other senses"), from sto. estate, and status. The sense of "polity" develops in the 14th century. Compare French être, Greek στέω, Italian stare, Portuguese estar, Romanian sta, and Spanish estar.