the way something is with respect to its main attributes | a work of fiction describing an imaginary place where life is extremely bad because of deprivation or oppression or terror |
a politically organized body of people under a single government | state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror |
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) | |