Synonyms: res publica, state, country, commonwealth, body politic, nation, land
Definition: a politically organized body of people under a single government
Usage: 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
Similar words: political entity, political unit
Definition: a unit with political responsibilities
Synonyms: democracy, republic, commonwealth
Definition: a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
Similar words: political system, form of government
Definition: the members of a social organization who are in power
Synonyms: commonwealth
Definition: 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
Similar words: world organisation, world organization, international organisation, international organization, global organization
Definition: an international alliance involving many different countries
Synonyms: commonwealth
Definition: the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
Similar words: state, province
Definition: the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
Usage: his state is in the deep south