With pomp and ceremony. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, state.

(US) Existing or occurring within a single US state. / (US) Of or from the state where an institution is located, especially a public or state-funded college or university.

(informal) Arkansas State University.

A quantity of income alleged by its earner, without proof.

(usually derogatory) A polity whose government exercises strict and repressive control of the people.

(military) The specified situation at the successful completion of the final phase of a military operation. / Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: Any ending state..

a political state, in the widest sense, which is ruled as or like a principality in the generic sense, regardless of the ruler's actual title and rank.

A state of Mexico. The most populous of one of the 32 federal entities of the country of Mexico.

plural of rump state

(systems theory) A variable that describes the state of a dynamical system.