the way something is with respect to its main attributes | a diocese of the Eastern Orthodox Church |
a politically organized body of people under a single government | a province in ancient Greece |
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) | |