State

State University, as the shortened form of a public university name.

Proper noun

  1. State University, as the shortened form of a public university name.
    • State begins fouling and UCLA misses a couple of front-end free throws on one-and-ones. - 2009, Brandon Lang, Stanley Cohen, Beating the Odds: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Sports Handicapper, →ISBN:
    • 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...

Origin

Capitalization of state.

Related

Crown

Noun

  1. A political entity that regulates society and the population within a definite territory.
  2. The current governing political entity in which the speaker lives.

Forms

States