state meaning
EN
[steɪt] [-eɪt] 
US UK WState
- State commonly refers to either the condition of a system or entity, or to a governed entity (such as a country) or subentity (such as an autonomous territory of a country).
EN State 
- NounPLstatesSUF-ate
- A polity.
- Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
- Well monarchies may own religion's name, / But states are atheists in their very fame.
- A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- a state of being;   a state of emergency
- States in which the energy has definite values are called stationary states of a system; they are described by wave functions Ψn which are the eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian operator, i.e. which satisfy the equation ĤΨn = EnΨn, where En are the eigenvalues of the energy.
- In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus.
- The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far.
- A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint.
- High social standing or circumstance.
- The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol.
- Thy honour, state, and seat is due to me.
- She instructed him how he should keep state, and yet with a modest sense of his misfortunes.
- His high throne, [ …] under state / Of richest texture spread.
- They who to States and Governours of the Commonwealth direct their Speech [ …] ; I suppose them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a little alter'd and mov'd inwardly in their mindes [ …] .
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Daniel to this entry?)
- (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
- A polity.
- VerbSGstatesPRstatingPT, PPstated
- VT To declare to be a fact.
- He stated that he was willing to help.
- VT To make known.
- State your intentions.
- VT To declare to be a fact.
- AdjectiveCOMmore stateSUPmost state
- OBS stately.
- OBS stately.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The state bed of Sobieski, King of Poland, was made of Smyrna gold brocade embroidered in turquoises with verses from the Koran.
- The three U.S. states on the west coast have favorable climates (i.e., warm winters and cool summers ).
- Neck and segment 1 of Semnoderes armiger in dorsal view, showing the deep middorsal incision in the anterior segment margin (arrow) (character 17, state 2).
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- State collection and dissemination have been abstracted away from the application by the common-map abstraction.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- These observations are consistent with the hypothesis that asynchronous hemodynamics is atheroprone and indirectly indicate EC under asynchronous hemodynamics initiate an inflammatory state.
- The liver appears to have also been in the adipescent state.
- With memory that slow, the processor is going to spend most of its time on wait states.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of state in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Reporting verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Reporting verbs
- Adjectives
- en states
- en statement
- en stated
- en statements
- en stately
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "state" is an adjective. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a reporting verb and a transitive verb.