With pomp and ceremony. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, state.

(US) Existing or occurring within a single US state. / (US) Of or from the state where an institution is located, especially a public or state-funded college or university.

(informal) Arkansas State University.

(historical) Former name of Trucial Oman. A collection of former protectorates (since the 1820 General Maritime Treaty) of the United Kingdom, comprising most of the small Arab coastal states (then sheikhdoms) located along the Persian Gulf. The precursor of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

plural of Trucial State

(in the singular, formerly also plural) Ellipsis of United States of America. / (in the plural) The collection of individual states of the United States of America.

plural of Northern State

plural of free state

plural of rogue state

One of the major historical states of Italy before the peninsula was unified in 1861. It comprised those territories over which the Pope was the ruler in a civil as well as a spiritual sense.