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State en · NOUN
Etymology
Capitalization of state.
Meanings
A political entity that regulates society and the population within a definite territory.
(often, with-definite-article) The current governing political entity in which the speaker lives.
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States
Number=Plur
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Translations (3)
es Estado (political entity) · pt Estado (political entity) · fr État (political entity)
State en · PROPN
Etymology
Capitalization of state.
Meanings
State University, as the shortened form of a public university name.
The Pack’s average seed in the mountain of NCAA tourney predictions out there is 10, and even the most optimistic takes on State’s situation have the team as an eight-seed. 2019 February 25, Steven Muma, “NCAA tournament position stays tenuous as NC State does the bare minimum”, in Backing the Pack:
State begins fouling and UCLA misses a couple of front-end free throws on one-and-ones. 2009, Brandon Lang, Stanley Cohen, Beating the Odds: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Sports Handicapper, →ISBN: