country vs state

country and state both are nouns.

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

As nouns, country and state are synonyms defined as:

country and state: a politically organized body of people under a single government

Other synonyms of country include body politic, commonwealth, land, nation, res publica.

As nouns, country and state are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of country include land.

country (noun)	state (noun)
a politically organized body of people under a single government	the way something is with respect to its main attributes
the people who live in a nation or country	a politically organized body of people under a single government
the territory occupied by a nation	the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
an area outside of cities and towns	the territory occupied by a nation
a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)	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)

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