Definition of "State"

State

noun
plural States
1. A current governing polity.
2. (often with definite article) The current governing polity under which the speaker lives.
proper noun
1. State University, as the shortened form of any public university name.
  Quotations
  The Pack’s average seed in the mountain of NCAA tourney predictions out there is 10, and even the most optimistic takes on State’s situation have the team as an eight-seed.
  2019 February 25, Steven Muma, “NCAA tournament position stays tenuous as NC State does the bare minimum”, in Backing the Pack‎