Definition of state

• the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state; "the state has lowered its income tax"
• the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south"
• 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 nations capitol"; "the countrys largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"