(grammar) A noun form occurring in Afroasiatic languages, when the noun does not bear a determiner – where it would use the determinate state –, nor governs a noun – where it would use the construct state.

(grammar) A noun form occurring in Afroasiatic languages, when the noun does bear a determiner (by contrast, in Aramaic there is an emphatic state or status emphaticus as a state of determination by the noun alone)

plural of state church

a church established by or controlled by the government of a country.

(archaic) Dignified, old-fashioned style

The US states on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas

(Pennsylvania) A liquor store

plural of state store

(socialism) A type of socialism wherein some or many of the means of production are controlled by the state, the state in turn being operated by (or on behalf of) the workers.

(especially US) a park managed by the federal state in which it is situated.