states
see also: States
Pronunciation
States
Proper noun
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see also: States
Pronunciation
- IPA: /steɪts/
- plural form of state
- third-person singular form of state
States
Proper noun
- (informal, chiefly outside of the US) Short for United States#English|United States.
- (historical, US) Those parts of the United States comprising states rather than territories.
- (Channel Islands) The parliament of either of the two Channel Islands countries: the States of Guernsey or the States of Jersey.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 43:
- It wasn't until the Green Shutters was closed down by the States at the beginning of the First World War […] that the whores went into private business in Cornet Street.
- 2012, The Guernsey Press, 28 Apr 2012:
- It has also led credence to the view of the outgoing chief minister that it is a handful of mischief-making existing deputies who are to blame for the perception that this States is already the worst ever.
- 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 43:
- plural form of State
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