authorities, government, regime - the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit; "the government reduced taxes"; "the matter was referred to higher authorities"

Soviets - the government of the Soviet Union; "the Soviets said they wanted to increase trade with Europe"

welfare state - a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.

administrative district, administrative division, territorial division - a district defined for administrative purposes

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

country, land, state - the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"

eparchy - a province in ancient Greece

American state - one of the 50 states of the United States

Guangdong, Guangdong province, Kwangtung - a province in southern China

Gansu, Gansu province, Kansu - a province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persia

Hebei, Hebei province, Hopeh, Hopei - a populous province in northeastern China

Hunan, Hunan province - a province in southeastern central China between the Nan Ling mountains and the Chang Jiang; noted for its timber and valuable mineral resources

Sichuan, Szechuan, Szechwan, Szechwan province - a populous province of south central China

Yunnan, Yunnan province - a province of southern China

Sinkiang, Xinjiang, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region - an autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan; the largest province in the People's Republic of China and the homeland of the Uighur people

Inner Mongolia, Nei Monggol - an autonomous region of northeastern China that was annexed by the Manchu rulers in 1635 and became an integral part of China in 1911

Chihuahua - a state in northern Mexico; mostly high plateau

Lower Saxony - a state in northwestern Germany

Bavaria - a state in southwestern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory

Italian region - Italy is divided into 20 regions for administrative purposes

Kosovo - a Serbian province in southern Yugoslavia populated predominantly by Albanians

Canadian province - Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes

Australian state - one of the states constituting Australia

Tirol, Tyrol - a picturesque mountainous province of western Austria

Assam - state in northeastern India

Karnataka, Mysore - state in southern India; formerly Mysore

Manipur - state in northeastern India

Andhra Pradesh - a state of southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal

Bihar - a state of northeastern India

Goa - a state of southwestern India; a former Portuguese colony

Gujarat, Gujerat - an industrialized state in western India that includes parts of Bombay

Madras, Tamil Nadu - a state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras

Uttar Pradesh - a state in northern India

Orissa - state in eastern India on the Bay of Bengal

West Bengal - a state in eastern India

Indonesian Borneo, Kalimantan - the part of Indonesia on the southern side of the island of Borneo

Friesland - one of the northernmost provinces of the Netherlands

Orange Free State, Free State - a province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997

Transvaal - a province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers

Cape Colony, Cape of Good Hope Province, Cape Province - a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814; in 1994 it was split into three new provinces of South Africa

Cape of Good Hope - a province of western South Africa

Soviet Socialist Republic - one of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991)

Abkhazia, Abkhaz - an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea; a strong independence movement has resulted in much instability

Dominion - one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth

estate of the realm, estate - a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country and formerly possessing distinct political rights

Reich - the German state

renegade state, rogue nation, rogue state - a Third World state that possesses weapons of mass destruction and sponsors terrorism

suzerain - a state exercising a degree of dominion over a dependent state especially in its foreign affairs

sea power - a nation that possesses formidable naval strength

great power, major power, superpower, world power, power - a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world

city state - a state consisting of a sovereign city

ally - a friendly nation

political unit - a unit with political responsibilities

skillfulness - the state of being cognitively skillful

cognitive state, state of mind - the state of a person's cognitive processes

cleavage - the state of being split or cleft

medium - a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position; "a happy medium"

ornamentation - the state of being ornamented

condition - a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing; "the human condition"

condition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"

conditionality - the state of being conditional

ground state - (physics) the lowest energy state of an atom or other particle

situation, state of affairs - the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time; "the present international situation is dangerous"; "wondered how such a state of affairs had come about"; "eternal truths will be neither true nor eternal unless they have fresh meaning for every new social situation"- Franklin D.Roosevelt

relationship - a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection); "he didn't want his wife to know of the relationship"

relationship - a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries

tribalism - the state of living together in tribes

utopia - ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects

dystopia - state in which the condition of life is extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror

natural state, state of nature, wild - a wild primitive state untouched by civilization; "he lived in the wild"

isomerism - the state of being an isomer; the complex of chemical and physical phenomena characteristic of isomers

degree, stage, level, point - a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences?"

office, power - (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power; "being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage"; "during his first year in office"; "during his first year in power"; "the power of the president"

status, position - the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life"

being, beingness, existence - the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries"

nonbeing - the state of not being

death - the absence of life or state of being dead; "he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life"

employ, employment - the state of being employed or having a job; "they are looking for employment"; "he was in the employ of the city"

unemployment - the state of being unemployed or not having a job; "unemployment is a serious social evil"; "the rate of unemployment is an indicator of the health of an economy"

order - established customary state (especially of society); "order ruled in the streets"; "law and order"

disorder - a disturbance of the peace or of public order

antagonism, enmity, hostility - a state of deep-seated ill-will

conflict - a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests; "his conflict of interest made him ineligible for the post"; "a conflict of loyalties"

illumination - the degree of visibility of your environment

freedom - the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints

delegacy, representation, agency - the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent

dependance, dependence, dependency - lack of independence or self-sufficiency

motion - a state of change; "they were in a state of steady motion"

motionlessness, stillness - a state of no motion or movement

dead letter, non-issue - the state of something that has outlived its relevance

activeness, activity, action - the state of being active; "his sphere of activity"; "he is out of action"

executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States

Bureau of Diplomatic Security, DS - the bureau in the State Department that is responsible for the security of diplomats and embassies overseas

Foreign Service - the part of the State Department that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world

Bureau of Intelligence and Research, INR - an agency that is the primary source in the State Department for interpretive analyses of global developments and focal point for policy issues and activities of the Intelligence Community

administrative district, administrative division, territorial division - a district defined for administrative purposes

banana republic - a small country (especially in Central America) that is politically unstable and whose economy is dominated by foreign companies and depends on one export (such as bananas)

country of origin, fatherland, homeland, mother country, motherland, native land - the country where you were born

buffer country, buffer state - a small neutral state between two rival powers

department - the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)

demesne, domain, land - territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land"

midland - the interior part of a country

kingdom - a country with a king as head of state

province, state - the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south"

tax haven - a country or independent region where taxes are low

European country, European nation - countries occupying the European continent

African country, African nation - countries occupying the African continent

Asian country, Asian nation - countries occupying the Asian continent

South American country, South American nation - countries occupying the South American continent

North American country, North American nation - a country on the North American continent

Antigua and Barbuda - a country in the northern Leeward Islands

Cape Verde, Republic of Cape Verde - an island country in the Atlantic off the coast of Senegal

Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka, Ceylon - a republic on the island of Ceylon; became independent of the United Kingdom in 1948

Comoros, Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros - a country on the Comoro Islands

Cuba, Republic of Cuba - a communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba; involved in state-sponsored terrorism

Haiti, Republic of Haiti - a republic in the West Indies on the western part of the island of Hispaniola; achieved independence from France in 1804; the poorest and most illiterate nation in the Western Hemisphere

Dominican Republic - a republic in the West Indies; located on the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola

Jamaica - a country on the island of Jamaica; became independent of England in 1962; much poverty; the major industry is tourism

Barbados - a parliamentary democracy on the island of Barbados; former British colony; a popular resort area

Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago - an island republic in the West Indies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962

Cyprus, Republic of Cyprus - a country on the island of Cyprus; 80% of the people are of Greek origin and 20% or Turkish origin

Commonwealth of Dominica, Dominica - a country on the island of Dominica

East Timor - a former Portuguese colony that was annexed by Indonesia in 1976; voted for independence from Indonesia in 1999 and in May 2002 became an independent nation

Fiji, Republic of Fiji - an independent state within the British Commonwealth located on the Fiji Islands

Israel, State of Israel, Yisrael, Zion, Sion - Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean; formerly part of Palestine

Etruria - an ancient country in central Italy; assimilated by the Romans by about 200 BC

Australia, Commonwealth of Australia - a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony

Federated States of Micronesia, Micronesia, TT - a country scattered over Micronesia with a constitutional government in free association with the United States; achieved independence in 1986

colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

emotional state, spirit - the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection); "his emotional state depended on her opinion"; "he was in good spirits"; "his spirit rose"

chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions

chemical phenomenon - any natural phenomenon involving chemistry (as changes to atoms or molecules)

phase, form - (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary; "the reaction occurs in the liquid phase of the system"

liquidity, liquidness, liquid - the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility

solidness, solid - the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape

gas - the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container

plasma - (physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons; "particles in space exist in the form of a plasma"

present, lay out, represent - bring forward and present to the mind; "We presented the arguments to him"; "We cannot represent this knowledge to our formal reason"

misstate - state something incorrectly; "You misstated my position"

answer, reply, respond - reply or respond to; "She didn't want to answer"; "answer the question"; "We answered that we would accept the invitation"

preface, premise, precede, introduce - furnish with a preface or introduction; "She always precedes her lectures with a joke"; "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution"

give tongue to, utter, express, verbalise, verbalize - articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise; "She expressed her anger"; "He uttered a curse"

announce, declare - announce publicly or officially; "The President declared war"

enunciate, vocalise, vocalize, articulate - express or state clearly

say - state as one's opinion or judgement; declare; "I say let's forget this whole business"

get out - express with difficulty; "I managed to get out a few words"

declare - state emphatically and authoritatively; "He declared that he needed more money to carry out the task he was charged with"

declare - make a declaration (of dutiable goods) to a customs official; "Do you have anything to declare?"

note, remark, mention, observe - make mention of; "She observed that his presentation took up too much time"; "They noted that it was a fine day to go sailing"

add, append, supply - state or say further; "`It doesn't matter,' he supplied"

explain - define; "The committe explained their plan for fund-raising to the Dean"

give - convey or reveal information; "Give one's name"

sum, summarise, summarize, sum up - be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper"

propose, suggest, advise - make a proposal, declare a plan for something

denote, refer - have as a meaning; "`multi-' denotes `many' "

vote - express a choice or opinion; "I vote that we all go home"; "She voted for going to the Chinese restaurant"

vote - express one's choice or preference by vote; "vote the Democratic ticket"