State
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]State (plural States)
- A current governing polity, country, city-state, or community.
- (often with definite article) The current governing polity, country, city-state, or community under which the speaker lives.
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[edit]Proper noun
[edit]State
- State University, as the shortened form of a public university name.
- 2009, Brandon Lang, Stanley Cohen, Beating the Odds: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Sports Handicapper, →ISBN:
- State begins fouling and UCLA misses a couple of front-end free throws on one-and-ones.
- 2019 February 25, Steven Muma, “NCAA tournament position stays tenuous as NC State does the bare minimum”, in Backing the Pack[1]:
- The Pack’s average seed in the mountain of NCAA tourney predictions out there is 10, and even the most optimistic takes on State’s situation have the team as an eight-seed.