the way something is with respect to its main attributes | the quality of being substantial or having substance |
a politically organized body of people under a single government | the quality of being solid and reliable financially or factually or morally |
the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state | the consistency of a solid |
the territory occupied by a nation | the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape |
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) | |