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How to sign: express in words
"He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name";
Categories: express, give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize
Within this category: add, announce, answer, articulate, declare, declare, explain, get out, give, misstate, note, precede, present, summarize
How to sign: a politically organized body of people under a single government
"the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land";
Similiar / Same: nation, res publica, body politic, country, commonwealth, land
Categories: political unit
Within this category: ally, city state, Dominion, Reich, rogue state, sea power, suzerain, world power
How to sign: the territory occupied by a nation
"he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries";
Similiar / Same: country, land
Categories: administrative district, administrative division, territorial division
Within this category: African country, Antigua and Barbuda, Asian country, Australia, Bahamas, banana republic, Barbados, buffer state, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Comoros, Cuba, Cyprus, Dominica, Dominican Republic, East Timor, Etruria, European country, fatherland, Fiji, Grenada, Haiti, Indonesia, Israel, Jamaica, kingdom, Kiribati, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nauru, New Zealand, North American country, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rus, Russia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, South American country, Soviet Union, Sri Lanka, sultanate, tax haven, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Vanuatu
