State

See also: state and státe

English

Etymology

Capitalization of state.

Noun

State (plural States)

1. A political entity that regulates society and the population within a definite territory.
2. (often with definite article) The current governing political entity in which the speaker lives.

Translations

political entity

• French: État (fr) m
• Portuguese: Estado (pt) m
• Spanish: Estado (es) m

Proper noun

State

1. State University, as the shortened form of a public university name.
   • 2009, Brandon Lang, Stanley Cohen, Beating the Odds: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Sports Handicapper, →ISBN:

     State begins fouling and UCLA misses a couple of front-end free throws on one-and-ones.

   • 2019 February 25, Steven Muma, “NCAA tournament position stays tenuous as NC State does the bare minimum”, in Backing the Pack‎^[1]:

     The Pack’s average seed in the mountain of NCAA tourney predictions out there is 10, and even the most optimistic takes on State’s situation have the team as an eight-seed.

See also

• Crown

Anagrams

• Tates, Teats, teats, Tetas, taste, atest, Testa, testa, aetts, Satet