noun (n)

• the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)(noun.location)

  source: wordnet30
• a politically organized body of people under a single government(noun.group)

  Synonym:
  body politic, country, land, nation, res publica, state
  

  source: wordnet30
• a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another(noun.group)

  source: wordnet30
• a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them(noun.group)

  Synonym:
  democracy, republic
  

  source: wordnet30
• A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws.(noun)

  source: webster1913