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

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

[ Syn: state , nation , country , land , res publica , body politic ]

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

a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

[ Syn: democracy , republic ]