a small island republic on the Tuvalu islands; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it withdrew in 1975 and became independent of the United Kingdom in 1978 | the way something is with respect to its main attributes |
a group of coral islands in Micronesia to the southwest of Hawaii | 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) |