the way something is with respect to its main attributes | a town and port in northwestern Israel in the eastern Mediterranean |
a politically organized body of people under a single government | a state in western Brazil bordering on Bolivia and Peru |
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) | |