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WordNet synsets.
According to WordNet, the noun "state" has 7 sense(s).
100024720 the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state".
108168978 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".
114479615 (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); "the solid state of water is called ice".
