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Webster 1828 Edition
States
STATES
,Noun.
plu.
Definition 2024
States
States
See also: states
English
Proper noun
- (informal, with definite article) The United States.
- 1935 November 7, “Ketchikan, Alaska, to Get New Federal Building”, in Christian Science Monitor:
- The structure will house the United States Army signal corps office which maintains radio and cable communication between Alaska and the States
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- (Guernsey) The States of Guernsey.
- 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: