foreign country vs state

state vs foreign country

foreign country and state both are nouns.

foreign country is not a verb while state is a verb.

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

As nouns, state is a hypernym of foreign country; that is, state is a word with a broader meaning than foreign country:

foreign country: any state of which one is not a citizen
state: a politically organized body of people under a single government

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

foreign country (noun)	state (noun)
any state of which one is not a citizen	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)

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

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