Dominican Republic vs state

Dominican Republic and state both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Dominican Republic	Yes	No	No	No
state	Yes	No	Yes	No

Dominican Republic (noun)	state (noun)
a republic in the West Indies; located on the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola	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)

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