State

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.

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    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.

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