[noun] the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
[noun] a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" Synonyms:state, nation, country, land, res publica, body politic
[noun] a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another
[noun] a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them Synonyms:democracy, republic
