Owned and controlled by the country's government.

(archaic) Dignified, old-fashioned style

(US, historical) Prior to the American Civil War, any of the states in which the owning of slaves was legal.

A public funeral ceremony held to honour individuals of national significance.

plural of state funeral

Synonym of state-owned enterprise.

(grammar) A noun form occurring in Afroasiatic languages, when the noun does not bear a determiner – where it would use the determinate state –, nor governs a noun – where it would use the construct state.

(grammar) A noun form occurring in Afroasiatic languages, when the noun does bear a determiner (by contrast, in Aramaic there is an emphatic state or status emphaticus as a state of determination by the noun alone)

(US) the border between two states in the United States of America.

plural of state line