African country vs state

state vs African country

African country and state both are nouns.

African country is not a verb while state is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
African country	Yes	No	No	No
state	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, state is a hypernym of African country; that is, state is a word with a broader meaning than African country:

African country: any one of the countries occupying the African continent
state: the territory occupied by a nation

Other hypernyms of African country include country, land.

African country (noun)	state (noun)
any one of the countries occupying the African continent	the way something is with respect to its main attributes
	a politically organized body of people under a single government
	the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
	the territory occupied by a nation
	the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
	a state of depression or agitation
	(chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)

African country (verb)	state (verb)
	express in words
	put before
	indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.

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