mother country vs state

state vs mother country

mother country and state both are nouns.

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

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

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

mother country: the country where you were born
state: the territory occupied by a nation

Other hypernyms of mother country include country, land.

mother country (noun)	state (noun)
the country where you were born	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)

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

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