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English to English noun
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the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) | source: wordnet30
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a politically organized body of people under a single government |
• the state has elected a new president
• African nations
• students who had come to the nation's capitol
• the country's largest manufacturer
• an industrialized land
source: wordnet30
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a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another | source: wordnet30
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a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | source: wordnet30
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A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws. | source: webster1913
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