state

Pronunciation: [steit]

Average Rank: 441

Source: ECDICT

n. 州, 状态, 情形, 国家, 政府, 领土, 国务, 社会地位 a. 国家的, 正式的, 礼仪用的, 州的 vt. 说明, 陈述, 规定 [计] 状态

n. the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
n. the way something is with respect to its main attributes
n. the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
n. a politically organized body of people under a single government

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Oxford 3000

Difficulty: BASIC

Exam Tags: zk gk cet4 cet6 ky

Plural: states

Past: stated

Past Participle: stated

3rd Person: states

Present Participle: stating

Word Frequency Rankings

#129

Formal, encyclopedic, and academic usage

Percentile: 98.7% (Top 98.7% most frequent)

98.7%

Out of 10,000 words in the Wikipedia corpus

#892

Conversational and colloquial usage

Percentile: 91.1% (Top 91.1% most frequent)

91.1%

Out of 10,000 words in the TV & Movie Scripts corpus

#303

Classical and literary usage

Percentile: 97.0% (Top 97.0% most frequent)

97.0%

Out of 10,000 words in the Project Gutenberg corpus

This word appears in 3 corpus/corpora, showing its usage across academic, conversational, and literary contexts.

Usage pattern: Most frequent in Wikipedia, making it particularly important for that context.