Australia vs state

Australia and state both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Australia	Yes	No	No	No
state	Yes	No	Yes	No

Australia (noun)	state (noun)
a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony	the way something is with respect to its main attributes
the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean	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)

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