the way something is with respect to its main attributes | a republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola; achieved independence from France in 1804; the poorest and most illiterate nation in the western hemisphere |
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) | |