STATES Antonyms
Definition of STATES
Best Opposite Words For STATES
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colonies | nounn | |||||||
noun • a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government • one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States • a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together • a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated • a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country • (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell | ||||||||
commonwealths | nounn | |||||||
noun • the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) • a politically organized body of people under a single government • a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another • a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | ||||||||
countries | nounn | |||||||
noun • a politically organized body of people under a single government • the territory occupied by a nation • the people who live in a nation or country • an area outside of cities and towns • a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography) | ||||||||
empires | nounn | |||||||
noun • an eating apple that somewhat resembles a McIntosh; used as both an eating and a cooking apple • the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised • a group of countries under a single authority • a monarchy with an emperor as head of state • a group of diverse companies under common ownership and run as a single organization | ||||||||
kingdoms | nounn | |||||||
noun • a domain in which something is dominant • a country with a king as head of state • the domain ruled by a king or queen • a monarchy with a king or queen as head of state • the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia • a basic group of natural objects | ||||||||
monarchies | nounn | |||||||
noun • an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority | ||||||||
nations | nounn | |||||||
noun • a politically organized body of people under a single government • United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911) • the people who live in a nation or country • a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes) | ||||||||
provinces | nounn | |||||||
noun • the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation • the proper sphere or extent of your activities | ||||||||
regions | nounn | |||||||
noun • the extended spatial location of something • a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve • a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth • the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of') • a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about | ||||||||
territories | nounn | |||||||
noun • a region marked off for administrative or other purposes • an area of knowledge or interest • the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state | ||||||||
occurrence | nounn | |||||||
noun • an event that happens • an instance of something occurring |