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 Dictionary entry overview: What does State mean? 

• STATE (noun)
  The noun STATE has 8 senses:

1. the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation

2. the way something is with respect to its main attributes

3. the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state

4. a politically organized body of people under a single government

5. (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)

6. a state of depression or agitation

7. the territory occupied by a nation

8. the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies

  Familiarity information: STATE used as a noun is common.

• STATE (verb)
  The verb STATE has 3 senses:

1. express in words

2. put before

3. indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.

  Familiarity information: STATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

province; state

Context example:

his state is in the deep south

Hypernyms ("state" is a kind of...):

administrative district; administrative division; territorial division (a district defined for administrative purposes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "state"):

commonwealth (the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico))

eparchy (a province in ancient Greece)

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Italian region (Italy is divided into 20 regions for administrative purposes)

Canadian province (Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes)

Australian state (one of the several states constituting Australia)

Malaysian state (one of the several states constituting Malaysia)

Soviet Socialist Republic (one of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991))

Instance hyponyms:

Guangdong; Guangdong province; Kwangtung (a province in southern China)

Gansu; Gansu province; Kansu (a province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persia)

Hebei; Hebei province; Hopeh; Hopei (a populous province in northeastern China)

Hunan; Hunan province (a province in southeastern central China between the Nan Ling mountains and the Chang Jiang; noted for its timber and valuable mineral resources)

Sichuan; Szechuan; Szechwan; Szechwan province (a populous province of south central China)

Yunnan; Yunnan province (a province of southern China)

Sinkiang; Xinjiang; Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (an autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan; the largest province in the People's Republic of China and the homeland of the Uighur people)

Inner Mongolia; Nei Monggol (an autonomous region of northeastern China that was annexed by the Manchu rulers in 1635 and became an integral part of China in 1911)

Yucatan (a state of Mexico on the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula)

Campeche (a Mexican state on the eastern part of the Gulf of Campeche)

Chihuahua; Coahuila (a state in northern Mexico; mostly high plateau)

Quintana Roo (a Mexican state on the eastern side of the Yucatan Peninsula)

Tabasco (a Mexican state on the Gulf of Campeche)

Lower Saxony (a state in northwestern Germany)

Bavaria (a state in southern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory)

Kosovo (a Serbian province in southern Serbia and Montenegro populated predominantly by Albanians)

Bosnia (the northern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Tirol; Tyrol (a picturesque mountainous province of western Austria and northern Italy)

Assam (state in northeastern India)

Karnataka; Mysore (state in southern India; formerly Mysore)

Manipur (state in northeastern India)

Sikkim (a state in northeastern India in the Himalaya Mountains between Nepal and Bhutan)

Andhra Pradesh (a state of southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal)

Bihar (a state of northeastern India)

Goa (a state of southwestern India; a former Portuguese colony)

Gujarat; Gujerat (an industrialized state in western India that includes parts of Bombay)

Madras; Tamil Nadu (a state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras)

Uttar Pradesh (a state in northern India)

Maharashtra (a state in west-central India)

Orissa (state in eastern India on the Bay of Bengal)

West Bengal (a state in eastern India)

Indonesian Borneo; Kalimantan (the part of Indonesia on the southern side of the island of Borneo)

Friesland (one of the northernmost provinces of the Netherlands)

Free State; Orange Free State (a province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997)

Transvaal (a province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers)

Cape Colony; Cape of Good Hope Province; Cape Province (a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814; in 1994 it was split into three new provinces of South Africa)

Cape of Good Hope (a province of western South Africa)

Abkhaz; Abkhazia (an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea; a strong independence movement has resulted in much instability)

Adzhar; Adzharia (an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea)

Buganda (a state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom)

Holonyms ("state" is a member of...):

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The way something is with respect to its main attributes

Classified under:

Nouns with no superordinates

Context example:

in a weak financial state

Hypernyms ("state" is a kind of...):

attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "state"):

feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)

skillfulness (the state of being cognitively skillful)

cleavage (the state of being split or cleft)

medium (a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position)

ornamentation (the state of being ornamented)

condition (a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing)

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

conditionality (the state of being conditional)

ground state ((physics) the lowest energy state of an atom or other particle)

nationhood (the state of being a nation)

situation; state of affairs (the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time)

relationship (a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection))

relationship (a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries)

tribalism (the state of living together in tribes)

utopia (ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects)

dystopia (state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror)

natural state; state of nature; wild (a wild primitive state untouched by civilization)

isomerism (the state of being an isomer; the complex of chemical and physical phenomena characteristic of isomers)

degree; level; point; stage (a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process)

office; power ((of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power)

position; status (the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society)

being; beingness; existence; face of the earth (the state or fact of existing)

nonbeing (the state of not being)

death (the absence of life or state of being dead)

employ; employment (the state of being employed or having a job)

unemployment (the state of being unemployed or not having a job)

order (established customary state (especially of society))

disorder (a disturbance of the peace or of public order)

antagonism; enmity; hostility (a state of deep-seated ill-will)

conflict (a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests)

illumination (the degree of visibility of your environment)

freedom (the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints)

agency; delegacy; representation (the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent)

dependance; dependence; dependency (the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else)

motion (a state of change)

lifelessness; motionlessness; stillness (a state of no motion or movement)

dead letter; non-issue (the state of something that has outlived its relevance)

action; activeness; activity (the state of being active)

inaction; inactiveness; inactivity (the state of being inactive)

temporary state (a state that continues for a limited time)

forthcomingness; imminence; imminency; imminentness; impendence; impendency (the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon)

preparation; preparedness; readiness (the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action))

flux; state of flux (a state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action)

kalemia (the presence of excess potassium in the circulating blood)

enlargement (the state of being enlarged)

separation (the state of lacking unity)

unification; union (the state of being joined or united or linked)

matureness; maturity (state of being mature; full development)

immatureness; immaturity (not having reached maturity)

grace; saving grace; state of grace ((Christian theology) a state of sanctification by God; the state of one who is under such divine influence)

damnation; eternal damnation (the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell)

omniscience (the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge)

omnipotence (the state of being omnipotent; having unlimited power)

flawlessness; ne plus ultra; perfection (the state of being without a flaw or defect)

integrity; unity; wholeness (an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting)

imperfection; imperfectness (the state or an instance of being imperfect)

receivership (the state of property that is in the hands of a receiver)

ownership (the state or fact of being an owner)

obligation (the state of being obligated to do or pay something)

death; destruction; end (a final state)

annulment; revocation (the state of being cancelled or annulled)

merchantability (the state of being fit for market; ready to be bought or sold)

turgor ((biology) the normal rigid state of fullness of a cell or blood vessel or capillary resulting from pressure of the contents against the wall or membrane)

homozygosity (the state of being homozygous; having two identical alleles of the same gene)

heterozygosity (the state of being heterozygous; having two different alleles of the same gene)

neotony (the state resulting when juvenile characteristics are retained by the adults of a species)

plurality (the state of being plural)

polyvalence; polyvalency ((toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism)

multivalence; multivalency; polyvalence; polyvalency ((chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two)

paternity (the state of being a father)

utilization (the state of having been made use of)

technicality (the state of being technical as in the use of technical terms or methods)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

the state has lowered its income tax

Hypernyms ("state" is a kind of...):

authorities; government; regime (the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "state"):

Soviets (the government of the Soviet Union)

welfare state (a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A politically organized body of people under a single government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

body politic; commonwealth; country; land; nation; res publica; state

Context example:

an industrialized land

Hypernyms ("state" is a kind of...):

political entity; political unit (a unit with political responsibilities)

Meronyms (parts of "state"):

estate; estate of the realm; the three estates (a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "state"):

commonwealth country (any of the countries in the British Commonwealth)

developing country (a country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically)

Dominion (one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth)

foreign country (any state of which one is not a citizen)

Reich (the German state)

renegade state; rogue nation; rogue state (a state that does not respect other states in its international actions)

suzerain (a state exercising a degree of dominion over a dependent state especially in its foreign affairs)

sea power (a nation that possesses formidable naval strength)

great power; major power; power; superpower; world power (a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world)

city-state; city state (a state consisting of a sovereign city)

ally (a friendly nation)

Instance hyponyms:

Eelam; Tamil Eelam (the independent state that the Tamil Tigers have fought for)

Sense 5

Meaning:

(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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

state; state of matter

Context example:

the solid state of water is called ice

Hypernyms ("state" is a kind of...):

chemical phenomenon (any natural phenomenon involving chemistry (as changes to atoms or molecules))

Attribute:

solid (of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous)

liquid (existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow)

gaseous (existing as or having characteristics of a gas)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "state"):

form; phase ((physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary)

liquid; liquid state; liquidity; liquidness (the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility)

solid; solid state; solidness (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)

gas; gaseous state (the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container)

plasma ((physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons)

Sense 6

Meaning:

A state of depression or agitation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him

Hypernyms ("state" is a kind of...):

emotional state; spirit (the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection))

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The territory occupied by a nation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

country; land; state

Context example:

he visited several European countries

Hypernyms ("state" is a kind of...):

administrative district; administrative division; territorial division (a district defined for administrative purposes)

Meronyms (parts of "state"):

demesne; domain; land (territory over which rule or control is exercised)

midland (the interior part of a country)

Meronyms (members of "state"):

department (the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France))

province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "state"):

banana republic (a small country (especially in Central America) that is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign companies and depends on one export (such as bananas))

country of origin; fatherland; homeland; mother country; motherland; native land (the country where you were born)

buffer country; buffer state (a small neutral state between two rival powers)

kingdom (a country with a king as head of state)

tax haven (a country or independent region where taxes are low)

European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)

African country; African nation (any one of the countries occupying the African continent)

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

South American country; South American nation (any one of the countries occupying the South American continent)

North American country; North American nation (any country on the North American continent)

sultanate (country or territory ruled by a sultan)

Instance hyponyms:

Antigua and Barbuda (a country in the northern Leeward Islands)

Cape Verde; Republic of Cape Verde (an island country in the Atlantic off the coast of Senegal)

Ceylon; Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka; Sri Lanka (a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948)

Comoros; Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros (a country on the Comoro Islands)

Cuba; Republic of Cuba (a communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba)

Haiti; Republic of Haiti (a republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola; achieved independence from France in 1804; the poorest and most illiterate nation in the western hemisphere)

Dominican Republic (a republic in the West Indies; located on the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola)

Jamaica (a country on the island of Jamaica; became independent of England in 1962; much poverty; the major industry is tourism)

Barbados (a parliamentary democracy on the island of Barbados; former British colony; a popular resort area)

Republic of Trinidad and Tobago; Trinidad and Tobago (an island republic in the West Indies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962)

Cyprus; Republic of Cyprus (a country on the island of Cyprus; 80% of the people are of Greek origin and 20% or Turkish origin)

Commonwealth of Dominica; Dominica (a country on the island of Dominica)

East Timor (a former Portuguese colony that was annexed by Indonesia in 1976; voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999 and in May 2002 became an independent nation)

Fiji; Republic of Fiji (an independent state within the British Commonwealth located on the Fiji Islands)

Israel; Sion; State of Israel; Yisrael; Zion (Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine)

Etruria (an ancient country in central Italy; assimilated by the Romans by about 200 BC)

Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)

Federated States of Micronesia; Micronesia; TT (a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986)

Marshall Islands; Republic of the Marshall Islands (a republic (under United States protection) on the Marshall Islands)

Tuvalu (a small island republic on the Tuvalu islands; formerly part of the British colony of Gilbert and Ellice Islands until it withdrew in 1975 and became independent of the United Kingdom in 1978)

Kiribati; Republic of Kiribati (an island republic in the west central Pacific just to the south of the equator)

Nauru; Republic of Nauru (an island republic on Nauru Island; phosphate exports support the economy)

Independent State of Papua New Guinea; Papua New Guinea (a parliamentary democracy on the eastern half of the island of New Guinea; in 1975 it became an independent state within the Commonwealth of Nations)

Bahama Islands; Bahamas; Commonwealth of the Bahamas (island country in the Atlantic to the east of Florida and Cuba; a popular winter resort)

Burkina Faso; Upper Volta (a desperately poor landlocked country in western Africa; was formerly Upper Volta under French rule but gained independence in 1960)

Dutch East Indies; Indonesia; Republic of Indonesia (a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions)

Grenada (an island state in the West Indies in the southeastern Caribbean Sea; an independent state within the British Commonwealth)

Maldives; Republic of Maldives (a republic on the Maldive Islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1965)

Malta; Republic of Malta (a republic on the island of Malta in the Mediterranean; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1964)

Mauritius; Republic of Mauritius (a parliamentary state on the island of Mauritius)

New Zealand (an independent country within the British Commonwealth; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1907; known for sheep and spectacular scenery)

Palau; Republic of Palau; TT (a republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States)

Philippines; Republic of the Philippines (a republic on the Philippine Islands; achieved independence from the United States in 1946)

Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Christopher-Nevis; Saint Kitts and Nevis; St. Christopher-Nevis; St. Kitts and Nevis (a country on several of the Leeward Islands; located to the east southeast of Puerto Rico; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1983)

Saint Lucia; St. Lucia (a country on the island of Saint Lucia; gained independence from Great Britain in 1979)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; St. Vincent and the Grenadines (an island country in the central Windward Islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1979)

Independent State of Samoa; Samoa; Samoa i Sisifo; Western Samoa (a constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific)

Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe; Sao Thome e Principe; Sao Tome and Principe; Sao Tome e Principe; St. Thomas and Principe (island nation in the South Atlantic off the west coast of Africa; achieved independence from Portugal in 1975; has enormous offshore oil reserves)

Republic of Seychelles; Seychelles (a republic on the Seychelles islands; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1976)

Solomon Islands (the southern Solomon Islands that since 1978 form an independent state in the British Commonwealth)

Rus (the medieval Russian state established by Scandinavian traders in the 9th century; the capital was first in Novgorod and then in Kiev)

Russia; Soviet Union; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR (a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991)

Russia; Russian Federation (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)

Ukraine; Ukrayina (a republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century)

Turkmen; Turkmenia; Turkmenistan; Turkomen (a republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991)

Friendly Islands; Kingdom of Tonga; Tonga (a monarchy on a Polynesian archipelago in the South Pacific; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1970)

Republic of Turkey; Turkey (a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923)

New Hebrides; Republic of Vanuatu; Vanuatu (a volcanic island republic in Melanesia; independent since 1980)

Sense 8

Meaning:

The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Department of State; DoS; State; State Department; United States Department of State

Context example:

the Department of State was created in 1789

Hypernyms ("State" is a kind of...):

executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "State"):

Bureau of Diplomatic Security; DS (the bureau in the State Department that is responsible for the security of diplomats and embassies overseas)

Foreign Service (the part of the State Department that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world)

Bureau of Intelligence and Research; INR (an agency that is the primary source in the State Department for interpretive analyses of global developments and focal point for policy issues and activities of the Intelligence Community)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "State"):

Foggy Bottom (United States Department of State, which is housed in a building in a low-lying area of Washington near the Potomac River)

• STATE (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Express in words

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

say; state; tell

Context example:

state your name

Hypernyms (to "state" is one way to...):

express; give tongue to; utter; verbalise; verbalize (articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise)

Verb group:

say (state as one's opinion or judgement; declare)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "state"):

lay out; present; represent (bring forward and present to the mind)

misstate (state something incorrectly)

answer; reply; respond (react verbally)

introduce; precede; preface; premise (furnish with a preface or introduction)

announce; declare (announce publicly or officially)

articulate; enunciate; vocalise; vocalize (express or state clearly)

get out (express with difficulty)

declare (state emphatically and authoritatively)

declare (make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official)

mention; note; observe; remark (make mention of)

add; append; supply (state or say further)

explain (define)

give (convey or reveal information)

sum; sum up; summarise; summarize (be a summary of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sentence example:

They state that there was a traffic accident

Derivation:

statement (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc)

statement (the act of affirming or asserting or stating something)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put before

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

posit; put forward; state; submit

Context example:

I submit to you that the accused is guilty

Hypernyms (to "state" is one way to...):

advise; propose; suggest (make a proposal, declare a plan for something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

statement (a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true)

statement (the act of affirming or asserting or stating something)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

express; state

Context example:

Can you express this distance in kilometers?

Hypernyms (to "state" is one way to...):

denote; refer (have as a meaning)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "state"):

vote (express a choice or opinion)

vote (express one's choice or preference by vote)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

 Context examples 

Lucky for you I am, for if I put on crushed airs and tried to be dismal, as you do, we should be in a nice state.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The whole force of the State is at your back if you should need it.—Mycroft.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The state of the metal seemed to show that the catastrophe had occurred no great time before.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Soon after, Mrs. Reed grew more composed, and sank into a dozing state.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I say two, because the state of my own knowledge does not pass beyond that point.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

When the Professor came in, we talked over the state of things.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

All his weight was on one foot, and he was in a state of unstable equilibrium.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Dear sister, if you consider my unhappy state, how can she be any comfort to me?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Yes, to be sure, as you state it, all this sounds very well; but still they are so very different.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Though much might be fancy, he could not doubt, when he looked back, that she was in a weaker state of health than she had been half a year ago.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)