state vs authorities

authorities vs state

state and authorities both are nouns.

state is a verb but authorities is not a verb.

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

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

state: the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
authorities: the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit

Other hypernyms of state include government, regime.

state (noun)	authorities (noun)
the way something is with respect to its main attributes	the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
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)

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

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