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English
Etymology
From Middle English stat (as a noun); adopted c. 1200 from both Old French estat and Latin status (“manner of standing, attitude, position, carriage, manner, dress, apparel; and other senses”), from stare (“to stand”). Doublet of estate and status. The sense of "polity" develops in the 14th century. Compare French être, Greek στέω (stéo), Italian stare, Portuguese estar, Romanian sta, and Spanish estar.
Pronunciation
Noun
state (plural states)
- A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- a state of being
- a state of emergency
1697, “Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil, volume III, Londo: Jacob Tonson, published 1721, page 713:Relate what Latium was, her ancient Kings : / Declare the paſt, and preſent State of things, / When firſt the Trojan Fleet Auſonia ſought ; / And how the Rivals lov’d, and how they fought.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed.
- (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
1977, J. B. Sykes, John Stewart Bell, translating Lev Landau, Evgeny Lifshitz, Course of Theoretical Physics Vol. 3: Quantum Mechanics: Non-relativistic Theory, page 28:States in which the energy has definite values are called stationary states of a system; they are described by wave functions Ψₙ which are the eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian operator, i.e. which satisfy the equation ĤΨₙ = EₙΨₙ, where Eₙ are the eigenvalues of the energy.
- (colloquial, in the singular) A mess; disorder; a bad condition or set of circumstances.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:difficult situation
- absolute state
- in a state
- in a bit of a state
1994 [1993], Irvine Welsh, “Traditional Sunday Breakfast”, in Trainspotting, London: Minerva, →ISBN, page 92:Who the fuck undressed me? Try tracing back. It's now Sunday. Yesterday was Saturday. The semi-final at Hampden. I had got myself into some fucking state before and after the match.
2019 June 3, Hannah Jane Parkinson, “An absolute state of a visit: what the Trump and Windsor snapshots tell us”, in The Guardian:An absolute state of a visit: what the Trump and Windsor snapshots tell us [title]
- (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus.
- (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far.
- (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint.
- (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
- (obsolete) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
- High social standing or circumstance.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- in state
- Rank; condition; quality.
c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: ”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :And leſned by that ſmall, God I beſeech him, / Thy honor, ſtate, and ſeate, is due to me.
- Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
1616, Francis Bacon, The History of Henry VII, of England, published 1786, page 139:Firſt, in princely behaviour and geſture, teaching him how he ſhould keep of a kind of ſtate, and yet, with a modeſt ſenſe of his misfortunes.
1703, “The Thebais of Statius”, in Alexander Pope, transl., The Works of Alexander Pope, volume II, London: H. Lintont et al., published 1751, book I, page 145:Can this imperious lord forget to reign, / Quit all his ſtate, deſcend, and ſerve again ?
- A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 443–447:[…] and from the dore / Of that Plutonia Hall, inviſible / Aſcended his high Throne, which under ſtate / Of richeſt texture ſpred, at th’ upper end / Was plac’t in regal luſtre.
1712, John Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift [uncertain], “Jack’s Charms, or the Method by which he gain’d Peg’s Heart”, in John Bull Still In His Senses, London: John Morphew, page 13:He invented a way of coming into a Room backwards, which he ſaid ſhew’d more Humility, and leſs Affectation ; where other People ſtood, he ſat ; when he went to Court, he us’d to kick away the State, and ſit down by his Prince, Cheek by Choul […]
- (obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.
c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene i:We in the name of other Perſean ſtates,
And commons of this mightie Monarchy,
Preſent thee with the Emperiall Diadem.
1644, John Milton, Areopagitica, page 1:They who to States and Governours of the Commonwealth direct their Speech, High Court of Parlament, or wanting ſuch acceſſe in a private condition, write that which they foreſee may advance the publick good ; I ſuppoſe them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a little alter’d and mov’d inwardly in their mindes […]
- (obsolete) Estate, possession.
1595, Samuel Daniel, “The Civile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke”, in Alexander Balloch Grosart, editor, The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Samuel Daniel, volume II, book IV, stanza 20, page 142:Their parties great, meanes good, the ſeaſon fit, / Their practice cloſe, their faith ſuſpected not, / Their ſtates far off, and they of wary wit : / Who, with large promiſes, ſo wooe the Scot / To aide their Cauſe, as he conſents to it ; / And glad was to diſturne that furious ſtreame / Of warre, on vs, that elſe had ſwallowed them.
c. 1619, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, “The Fatal Dowry”, in The Works of Philip Massinger, volume II, London: T. Davies, published 1761, , page 271:Your ’State, my Lord, again is yours.
- A polity.
- (historically often capitalized) Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government.
- a. 1949, Albert Einstein, as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949)
- Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
- A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.
1789, United States Bill of Rights:The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
1839, John Beach, Thomas Clap Perkins, The public statute laws of the state of Connecticut, page 35:You do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that you will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Connecticut, so long as you continue a citizen thereof; and that you will faithfully discharge, according to law, the duties of the office of […] to the best of your abilities.
1993, Charles E. McLure, Vertical fiscal imbalance and the assignment of taxing powers in Australia, →ISBN:As Australia considers whether to allow states greater latitude in the indirect tax field, it must ask what it will do when (not if) it finally decides that the federal government should enact a modern general sales tax.
2001, Angus Macleod Gunn, The Impact of Geology on the United States, page 0313314446:The Central Lowlands is often referred to as the heart of America — and with good reason: If we look at the names of the eight states with populations of 10 million or more, this region has three of them, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan, more than any one of the other five.
- (obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy.
1662, John Dryden, “Satire on the Dutch”, in The Works of the English Poets, volume XIII, London: R. Hett, published 1779, page 41:Well monarchies may own religion’s name, / But ſtates are atheiſts in their very frame.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
- Antonym: occurrence
1997, Robert van Valin, Randy LaPolla, Syntax, page 92:[…] distinctions among states of affairs are reflected to a striking degree in distinctions among Aktionsart types. That is, situations are expressed by state verbs or predicates, events by achievement verbs or predicates, and actions by activity verbs or predicates.
2010, Nick Riemer, Introducing Semantics, page 320:The most basic Aktionsart distinction is between states and occurrences.
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Derived terms
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Translations
any sovereign polity
- Abkhaz: аҳәынҭқарра (aḥʷəntkarra)
- Afrikaans: staat (af)
- Albanian: shtet (sq) m
- Antillean Creole: éta m
- Arabic: دَوْلَة (ar) f (dawla)
- Armenian: պետություն (hy) (petutʻyun), երկիր (hy) (erkir)
- Aromanian: stat n, crat n, duvleti f, vãsilii f, amirãrilji f
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܘܼܚܕܵܢܵܐ m (uḥdānā), ܐܲܬܪܵܐ m (atrā)
- Asturian: estáu (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: dövlət (az)
- Bashkir: дәүләт (dəwlət)
- Belarusian: дзяржа́ва (be) f (dzjaržáva)
- Bengali: রাষ্ট্র (bn) (raśṭro)
- Breton: stad (br) m
- Bulgarian: държа́ва (bg) f (dǎržáva)
- Burmese: နိုင်ငံ (my) (nuingngam)
- Buryat: гүрэн (güren), түрэ (türe), гүрэн түрэ (güren türe), улас (ulas)
- Carpathian Rusyn: держа́ва f (deržáva)
- Catalan: estat (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 國家/国家 (gwok3 gaa1)
- Dungan: гуйҗя (guyži͡a)
- Eastern Min: 國家/国家 (guók-gă)
- Hakka: 國家/国家 (koet-kâ)
- Hokkien: 國家/国家 (zh-min-nan) (kok-ka, kok-ke, kok-kee)
- Mandarin: 國家/国家 (zh) (guójiā); 國/国 (zh) (guó); 邦 (zh) (bāng), 邦國/邦国 (zh) (bāngguó);
- Northern Min: 國家/国家 (gŏ-gá)
- Wu: 國家/国家 (7koq-cia)
- Coptic: ⲉⲝⲟⲩⲥⲓⲁ f (eksousia), ϣⲗⲟⲗ m (šlol)
- Cornish: stat m
- Corsican: statu m
- Crimean Tatar: devlet
- Czech: stát (cs) m
- Danish: stat c
- Dutch: staat (nl) f
- Esperanto: ŝtato
- Estonian: riik (et)
- Finnish: valtio (fi)
- French: état (fr) m, État (fr) m, Etat (fr) m
- Friulian: stât m
- Galician: estado (gl) m
- Georgian: სახელმწიფო (ka) (saxelmc̣ipo)
- German: Staat (de) m
- Greek: κράτος (el) n (krátos), καθεστώς (el) n (kathestós)
- Guaraní: tetã (gn)
- Haitian Creole: eta
- Hausa: jiha (ha)
- Hebrew: מְדִינָה (he) f (m'diná)
- Hindi: राज्य (hi) m (rājya), राष्ट्र (hi) m (rāṣṭra), स्टेट (hi) m (sṭeṭ)
- Hungarian: állam (hu)
- Icelandic: ríki (is) n
- Ido: stato (io)
- Indonesian: negara (id)
- Ingrian: riikki
- Irish: stát m
- Italian: stato (it) m
- Japanese: 国 (ja) (くに, kuni), 国家 (ja) (こっか, kokka)
- Kalmyk: орн-нутг (orn-nutg), государств (gosudarstv), төр (tör), шаң (şañ) (as a legal person)
- Kannada: ದೇಶ (kn) (dēśa)
- Kashubian: państwò n
- Kazakh: мемлекет (memleket), дәулет (däulet)
- Khakas: хазна (xazna)
- Khmer: រដ្ឋ (km) (rŏət)
- Korean: 국가(國家) (ko) (gukga)
- Kumyk: пачалыкъ (paçalıq)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: dewlet (ku) f
- Kyrgyz: мамлекет (ky) (mamleket), дөөлөт (ky) (döölöt)
- Ladin: stat m
- Lao: ລັດ (lo) (lat), ຣັດ (rat), ຊາດ (lo) (sāt)
- Latin: civitas (la) f, res publica (la) f
- Latvian: valsts (lv) f
- Ligurian: stâto
- Limburgish: staot (li)
- Lithuanian: valstybė (lt) f
- Lü: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: др́жава f (dŕžava)
- Malay: negara (ms)
- Malayalam: രാഷ്ട്രം (ml) (rāṣṭraṁ)
- Manchu: ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ (gurun), ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ
ᠪᠣᠣ (gurun boo)
- Maori: tūwehe
- Middle Mongol: ᠤᠯᠤᠰ᠋ (ulus)
- Mongolian:
- Classical Mongolian: ᠤᠯᠤᠰ᠋ (ulus)
- Cyrillic: улс гурэн (uls guren), улс (mn) (uls)
- Mongolian: ᠤᠯᠤᠰ᠋ (ulus)
- Navajo: Wááshindoon, biwááshindoon
- Norman: êtat m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: stat (no) m
- Nynorsk: stat m
- Occitan: estat (oc) m
- Ojibwe: ogimaawiwin
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: дрьжава f (drĭžava), дръжава f (drŭžava)
- Old East Slavic: дьржава f (dĭržava)
- Old English: cynewise f
- Ossetian: паддзахад (padʒaxad)
- Ottoman Turkish: دولت (devlet)
- Pali: raṭṭha n
- Pashto: مملکت m (mamlakat), دولت (ps) m (dawlat)
- Persian:
- Classical Persian: دَوْلَت (fa) (dawlat)
- Iranian Persian: دُوْلَت (fa) (dowlat), فَرْمانْرَوایی (fa) (farmânravâyi)
- Picard: étot m
- Polish: państwo (pl) n, stan (pl) m
- Portuguese: estado (pt) m
- Romanian: stat (ro) n
- Romansch: stadi m, stedi
- Russian: госуда́рство (ru) n (gosudárstvo), держа́ва (ru) f (deržáva), на́ция (ru) f (nácija)
- Sanskrit: राष्ट्र (sa) m or n (rāṣṭra)
- Sardinian: istadu m, istatu m, istau m, (rare) stadu m
- Scots: state, steit
- Scottish Gaelic: stàit f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: др̀жава f
- Roman: dr̀žava (sh) f
- Sicilian: statu m, statu m
- Sinhalese: රාජ්යය (rājyaya)
- Slovak: štát (sk) m
- Slovene: država (sl) f
- Southern Altai: тергее (tergee)
- Spanish: Estado (es) m
- Swahili: nchi (sw), dola (sw)
- Swedish: stat (sv) c, rike (sv) n
- Tagalog: banwa
- Tajik: давлат (tg) (davlat)
- Tamil: அரசு (ta) (aracu)
- Tatar: дәүләт (tt) (däwlät)
- Telugu: స్థితి (te) (sthiti)
- Thai: รัฐ (th) (rát), ชาติ (th) (châat)
- Tibetan: རྒྱལ་ཁབ (rgyal khab)
- Tigrinya: ሃገረ (hagärä)
- Tok Pisin: kantri
- Turkish: devlet (tr)
- Turkmen: döwlet
- Tuvan: күрүне (kürüne)
- Ukrainian: держа́ва (uk) f (deržáva)
- Urdu: رِیاسَت f (riyāsat), دَولَت f (daulat)
- Uyghur: دۆلەت (dölet)
- Uzbek: davlat (uz)
- Venetian: stato m, stado
- Vietnamese: nhà nước (vi), quốc gia (vi)
- Walloon: estat m
- Welsh: talaith (cy) f
- Yakut: судаарыстыба (sudaarıstıba)
- Yiddish: מדינה (medine)
- Zazaki: dıwêl f, dewlet f
- Zhuang: guekgya
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a political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy
- Abkhaz: аштат (aŝtʼatʼ)
- Albanian: shtet (sq) m
- Arabic: وِلَايَة (ar) f (wilāya)
- Armenian: նահանգ (hy) (nahang)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܘܼܚܕܵܢܵܐ m (uḥdānā)
- Azerbaijani: ştat
- Bashkir: штат (ştat) (in the US, India, Brazil etc.)
- Belarusian: штат m (štat)
- Bengali: রাজ্য (bn) (rajjo)
- Bulgarian: щат (bg) m (štat), прови́нция (bg) f (províncija)
- Burmese: ပြည်နယ် (my) (pranynai)
- Buryat: штат (štat)
- Catalan: estat (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 州 (zh) (zhōu), 州份 (zhōufèn) (collectively), 邦 (zh) (bāng) (of India), 合眾國/合众国 (zh) (hézhòngguó) (US)
- Cornish: stat m
- Corsican: statu m
- Czech: stát (cs) m
- Danish: delstat (da) c, stat c
- Dutch: staat (nl) f
- Esperanto: subŝtato
- Estonian: osariik
- Finnish: osavaltio (fi)
- French: État (fr) m, état (fr) m
- Friulian: stât m
- Georgian: შტატი (šṭaṭi)
- German: Staat (de) m, Land (de) n, Bundesland (de) n
- Greek: πολιτεία (el) f (politeía)
- Guaraní: tetãvore
- Haitian Creole: eta
- Hausa: jiha (ha)
- Hebrew: מְדִינָה (he) f (m'diná), אֶרֶץ (he) f (érets)
- Hindi: प्रदेश (hi) m (pradeś), राज्य (hi) m (rājya), स्टेट (hi) m (sṭeṭ)
- Hungarian: állam (hu)
- Icelandic: ríki (is) n, fylki (is) n
- Ido: stato (io)
- Indonesian: negara bagian (id)
- Ingrian: štaatta
- Interlingua: stato
- Irish: stát m
- Italian: stato (it) m
- Japanese: 州 (ja) (しゅう, shū), 合衆国 (ja) (がっしゅうこく, gasshūkoku) (US)
- Kalmyk: штат (ştat)
- Kazakh: штат (ştat)
- Khakas: штат (ştat)
- Khmer: រដ្ឋ (km) (rŏət)
- Korean: 주(州) (ko) (ju), 합중국(合衆國) (hapjungguk) (US)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: ویلایەت (ckb) (wîlayet)
- Northern Kurdish: wîlayet (ku), eyalet (ku)
- Kyrgyz: штат (ky) (ştat)
- Ladin: stat m
- Lao: ລັດ (lo) (lat)
- Latin: civitas (la) f, res publica (la) f
- Latvian: pavalsts f, valsts (lv) f
- Lithuanian: valstija f
- Lü: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: др́жава f (dŕžava)
- Malay: negeri (ms)
- Malayalam: സംസ്ഥാനം (ml) (saṁsthānaṁ)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: муж (mn) (muž)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: stat (no) m, delstat (no) m
- Nynorsk: stat m, delstat m
- Ottoman Turkish: ایل (il)
- Pennsylvania German: Schtaat
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: اِیالَت (fa) (eyâlat)
- Picard: étot m
- Polish: stan (pl) m
- Portuguese: estado (pt) m
- Romanian: stat (ro) n
- Russian: (US, India, Australia) штат (ru) m (štat), (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan) о́бласть (ru) f (óblastʹ), (Germany) земля́ (ru) f (zemljá), (Canada, China, others) прови́нция (ru) f (províncija), (Japan) префекту́ра (ru) f (prefektúra)
- Sardinian: istadu m, istatu m, istau m, (rare) stadu m
- Scots: state
- Scottish Gaelic: stàit f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: кра̏јина f, по̀крајина f, о̏бла̄ст f, dr̀žava (sh) f
- Roman: krȁjina (sh) f, pòkrajina (sh) f, ȍblāst (sh) f, dr̀žava (sh) f
- Sicilian: statu m
- Slovak: štát (sk) m
- Slovene: država (sl) f
- Southern Altai: штат (štat)
- Spanish: estado (es) m
- Swahili: nchi (sw)
- Swedish: stat (sv) c, delstat (sv) c
- Tajik: иёлат (iyolat)
- Tamil: மாநிலம் (ta) (mānilam)
- Thai: รัฐ (th) (rát)
- Turkish: eyalet (tr), il (tr), devlet (tr), vilayet (tr)
- Turkmen: ştat
- Tuvan: штат (ştat)
- Ukrainian: штат m (štat)
- Urdu: صُوبَہ m (sūba), رِیاسَت f (riyāsat), پْرَدیش m (pradeś), اِسْٹیٹ m (isṭeṭ), سْٹیٹ m (sṭeṭ), راجْیَہ m (rājya), وِلایَت f (vilāyat)
- Uyghur: شتات (shtat) (e.g. US)
- Uzbek: shtat (uz)
- Venetian: stato m, stado
- Vietnamese: tiểu bang (vi), bang (vi)
- Walloon: redjon m
- West Frisian: steat
- Yakut: штат (shtat), ыстаат (ıstaat)
- Yiddish: שטאַט m (shtat)
- Zazaki: eyalet f
- Zhuang: couh
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a condition
- Arabic: حَالَة (ar) f (ḥāla), حَال m (ḥāl)
- Armenian: վիճակ (hy) (vičak)
- Aromanian: stari
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܝܟܲܢܵܝܘܼܬܵܐ f (aykannāyūtā), ܙܢܵܐ m (znā)
- Azerbaijani: halət, hal (az)
- Bashkir: хәл (xəl), торош (toroş)
- Belarusian: стан m (stan), стано́вішча n (stanóvišča)
- Bengali: হাল (bn) (hal), অবস্থা (bn) (obostha)
- Bulgarian: състоя́ние (bg) n (sǎstojánie)
- Burmese: အခြေအနေ (my) (a.hkrea.ne)
- Catalan: estat (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 狀態/状态 (zong6 taai3), 狀況/状况 (zong6 fong3)
- Mandarin: 狀態/状态 (zh) (zhuàngtài), 狀況/状况 (zh) (zhuàngkuàng)
- Coptic: ⲣⲁ m (ra)
- Corsican: statu m
- Czech: stav (cs) m
- Danish: tilstand (da) c
- Dutch: staat (nl) f, toestand (nl) m
- Esperanto: stato (eo)
- Finnish: tila (fi)
- French: état (fr) m
- Friulian: stât m
- Georgian: მდგომარეობა (mdgomareoba)
- German: Zustand (de) m
- Greek: κατάσταση (el) f (katástasi)
- Ancient: ἕξις f (héxis)
- Hebrew: מַצָּב (he) m (matsáv)
- Hindi: हालत (hi) f (hālat), हाल (hi) m (hāl), अवस्था (hi) f (avasthā), दशा (hi) f (daśā)
- Hungarian: állapot (hu)
- Icelandic: ástand n
- Ido: stando (io)
- Indonesian: keadaan (id)
- Irish: stát m
- Italian: stato (it) m
- Japanese: 状態 (ja) (じょうたい, jōtai)
- Kazakh: жағдай (jağdai)
- Korean: 상태(狀態) (ko) (sangtae)
- Kyrgyz: абал (ky) (abal)
- Ladin: stat m
- Latgalian: stāte f
- Latin: status (la) m
- Latvian: stāvoklis m
- Lithuanian: būsena (lt) f, būklė (lt) f
- Macedonian: состојба f (sostojba)
- Malay: keadaan (ms)
- Maori: hanga (referring to matter)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: байдал (mn) (bajdal)
- Norman: êtat m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tilstand (no) m
- Ottoman Turkish: بال (bâl)
- Pashto: حالت (ps) m (hālat)
- Persian:
- Classical Persian: حَالَت (fa) (hālat), حَال (fa) (hāl)
- Iranian Persian: حالَت (fa) (hâlat), حال (fa) (hâl)
- Polish: stan (pl) m, kondycja (pl) f
- Portuguese: estado (pt) m
- Romanian: stare (ro) f, stat (ro) n
- Russian: состоя́ние (ru) n (sostojánije), положе́ние (ru) n (položénije), ста́тус (ru) m (státus)
- Sanskrit: अवस्था (sa) f (avasthā)
- Sardinian: istadu m, istatu m, stadu m
- Scottish Gaelic: cor m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ста́ње n, pȍložāj (sh) m
- Roman: stánje (sh) n, pȍložāj (sh) m
- Sicilian: statu m
- Slovak: stav m
- Slovene: stanje (sl) n
- Spanish: estado (es) m
- Swahili: hali (sw)
- Swedish: tillstånd (sv) n
- Tagalog: himtang
- Tajik: ҳолат (holat), ҳол (hol)
- Tarifit: rḥar m
- Thai: สภาพ (th) (sà-pâap), ภาวะ (th) (paa-wá), สภาวะ (th) (sà-paa-wá)
- Turkish: durum (tr), hâl (tr)
- Turkmen: ýagdaýy
- Ukrainian: стан (uk) m (stan), стано́вище n (stanóvyšče)
- Urdu: حالَت f (hālat), حال (ur) m (hāl)
- Uzbek: ahvol (uz), holat (uz)
- Venetian: stato m, stado m
- Vietnamese: tình trạng (vi), trạng thái (vi), chế độ (vi)
- Walloon: estance (wa) f
- Yiddish: צושטאַנד m (tsushtand)
- Zazaki: hal (diq) c
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Verb
state (third-person singular simple present states, present participle stating, simple past and past participle stated)
- (transitive) To declare to be a fact.
He stated that he was willing to help.
1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
- (transitive) To make known.
State your intentions.
Usage notes
State is stronger or more definitive than say. It is used to communicate an absence of reasonable doubt and to emphasize the factual or truthful nature of the communication.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
declare to be a fact
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܲܕܸܩ (baddiq), ܒܲܝܸܢ (bayyin)
- Bulgarian: заявявам (bg) (zajavjavam), изразявам (bg) (izrazjavam)
- Catalan: declarar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 表示 (zh) (biǎoshì), 聲明/声明 (zh) (shēngmíng), 規定/规定 (zh) (guīdìng)
- Danish: erklære
- Dutch: verklaren (nl)
- Finnish: sanoa (fi), todeta (fi), ilmoittaa (fi)
- French: déclarer (fr)
- German: erklären (de)
- Greek: δηλώνω (el) (dilóno)
- Hebrew: הצהיר (hits'hír)
- Hungarian: kijelent (hu), megállapít (hu)
- Italian: dichiarare (it), statuire (it)
- Japanese: 述べる (ja) (noberu)
- Korean: 표현 (ko) (pyohyeon)
- Latin: eloquor (la), dico (la)
- Maori: tauākī, whakapuaki
- Polish: twierdzić (pl) impf, stwierdzać (pl) impf, stwierdzić (pl) pf
- Portuguese: atestar (pt)
- Romanian: declara (ro)
- Russian: утвержда́ть (ru) impf (utverždátʹ), утверди́ть (ru) pf (utverdítʹ), заявля́ть (ru) impf (zajavljátʹ), заяви́ть (ru) pf (zajavítʹ), констати́ровать (ru) impf or pf (konstatírovatʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: izjaviti (sh), izneti (sh)
- Spanish: declarar (es)
- Swahili: hali (sw)
- Swedish: påstå (sv)
- Tagalog: estado (tl)
- Thai: กล่าว (th) (glàao), แถลง (th) (tà-lɛ̌ɛng)
- Turkish: bildirmek (tr)
- Ukrainian: заявля́ти impf (zajavljáty), заяви́ти pf (zajavýty), стве́рджувати impf (stvérdžuvaty), стве́рдити pf (stvérdyty), констатува́ти impf or pf (konstatuváty)
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make known
- Arabic: يُبْدِي m (yubdī)
- Bulgarian: обявявам (bg) (objavjavam), съобщавам (bg) (sǎobštavam)
- Catalan: declarar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 表示 (zh) (biǎoshì), 陳述/陈述 (zh) (chénshù), 聲明/声明 (zh) (shēngmíng)
- Dutch: bekendmaken (nl)
- Finnish: ilmoittaa (fi)
- French: indiquer (fr)
- German: darlegen (de), nennen (de)
- Greek: διατυπώνω (el) (diatypóno), εκθέτω (el) (ekthéto)
- Hungarian: közöl (hu)
- Irish: sonraigh
- Italian: dichiarare (it), esporre (it), indicare (it)
- Japanese: 述べる (ja) (noberu)
- Kapampangan: ipasiag (traditional), ipasyag (modern)
- Korean: 선언 (ko) (seoneon)
- Latin: eloquor (la), dico (la)
- Maori: whakapuaki, taukī
- Polish: oznajmiać (pl) impf, oznajmić (pl) pf
- Portuguese: declarar (pt), indicar (pt)
- Russian: объявля́ть (ru) impf (obʺjavljátʹ), объяви́ть (ru) pf (obʺjavítʹ), излага́ть (ru) impf (izlagátʹ), изложи́ть (ru) pf (izložítʹ)
- Spanish: declarar (es), indicar (es)
- Swahili: hali (sw)
- Swedish: ange (sv)
- Tagalog: ipahayag
- Thai: แจ้ง (th) (jɛ̂ɛng)
- Turkish: belirtmek (tr), bildirmek (tr)
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Adjective
state (comparative more state, superlative most state)
- (obsolete) Stately.
1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “September. Aegloga Nona.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: , London: Hugh Singleton, , →OCLC; republished as The Shepheardes Calender , London: Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, , 1586, →OCLC, folio 36, recto:The ſhepheardes ſwayne you cannot well ken, / But it be by his pride, from other men: / They looken bigge as Bulles, that bene bate, / And bearen the cragge ſo ſtiffe and ſo ſtate, / As Cocke on his dunghill, crowing cranck.
Related terms
See also
References
- “state”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- state in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- “state”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “state”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Further reading
Anagrams
Afrikaans
Noun
state
- plural of staat
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsta.te/
- Rhymes: -ate
- Hyphenation: stà‧te
Etymology 1
Apheretic form of estate.
Noun
state f (plural stati)
- (Tuscan) Alternative form of estate
1567, Ricettario fiorentino [Florentine Cookbook], page 5:L'ACQVA buona […] debbe toſto riſcaldarſi, e raffreddarſi, e la ſtate eſſere freſca, e l'inuerno tiepida.- Good water should quickly heat up, and cool down; and be cool during Summer, and lukewarm during Winter.
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
state
- inflection of stare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
state f pl
- feminine plural of stato
Further reading
- state in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
stāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of stō
Participle
state
- vocative masculine singular of status
Romanian
Noun
state
- plural of stat
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English stat, from Old French estat, from Latin status.
Pronunciation
Noun
state
- condition
1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 1-2:Ye state na dicke daie o'ye londe, na whilke be nar fash nar moile, albiet 'constitutional agitation,'- The condition, this day, of the country, in which is neither tumult nor disorder, but that constitutional agitation,
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 116