Commonwealth of the Bahamas vs state

Commonwealth of the Bahamas and state both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Commonwealth of the Bahamas	Yes	No	No	No
state	Yes	No	Yes	No

Commonwealth of the Bahamas (noun)	state (noun)
island country in the Atlantic to the east of Florida and Cuba; a popular winter resort	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)

Commonwealth of the Bahamas (verb)	state (verb)
	express in words
	put before
	indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.