Usually means: Organized community under one government.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. state: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. state, state: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. state: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. state: Collins English Dictionary
  5. State, state: Vocabulary.com
  6. State, State, state, state: Wordnik
  7. state: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. State, state: Wiktionary
  9. state: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. state: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. state: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. state: Dictionary.com
  13. state (n.1), state (n.2), state (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. state: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. State (Ancient China), State (CTA Englewood Line station), State (Germany), State (MBTA station), State (Sweden), State (Todd Rundgren album), State (U.S.), State (US), State (United States), State (administrative division), State (computer science), State (controls), State (disambiguation), State (functional analysis), State (law), State (magazine), State (politics), State (polity), State (religious life), State (subnational), State (theology), State (thermodynamic), State (website), State, The State (Larry Niven), The State (TV series), The State (album), The State (band), The State (book), The State (newspaper), The State, The state: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. State: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. state: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. state: Rhymezone
  19. state: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. state: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. State, state: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. state: Free Dictionary
  23. state: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. State, state: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. state: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. state: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. state: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  4. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  5. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  6. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. state: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  8. State: Energy Dictionary
  9. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  10. Glossary of International Trade Terms (No longer online)
  11. State (disambiguation), State (politics), state, the state: Legal dictionary
  12. state: Financial dictionary
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. state: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. State: Cybernetics and Systems
  3. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  4. state: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  5. Webopedia (No longer online)
  6. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  7. State (politics), state: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. State (politics), -state, state: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. STATE: Acronym Finder
  3. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  4. state: Idioms

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. State: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. state, state, state, state: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. state: Anthropological Terms
  5. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  6. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. state, state: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The State, state: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Book Collectors' Glossary (No longer online)
  3. STATE: Power Engineering

(Note: See statable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
noun:  (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
noun:  (colloquial, in the singular) A mess; disorder; a bad condition or set of circumstances.
noun:  (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
noun:  (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
noun:  (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
noun:  (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
noun:  (obsolete) 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.
noun:  High social standing or circumstance.
noun:  Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
noun:  Rank; condition; quality.
noun:  Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
noun:  A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
noun:  (obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.
noun:  (obsolete) Estate, possession.
noun:  A polity.
noun:  (historically often capitalized) Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government.
noun:  A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.
noun:  (obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy.
noun:  (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
noun:  (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
noun:  (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
verb:  (transitive) To declare to be a fact.
verb:  (transitive) To make known.
adjective:  (obsolete) Stately.
noun:  A current governing polity.
noun:  (often with definite article) The current governing polity under which the speaker lives.
noun:  State University, as the shortened form of a public university name.

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