What is the meaning of the word "state"?

Definitions:

(chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container) noun
- the solid state of water is called ice
a politically organized body of people under a single government noun
- the state has elected a new president
a state of depression or agitation noun
- They were in such a state that you just could not reason with them.
the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state noun
- the state has lowered its income tax
the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation noun
- Our state is in the deep south.
the way something is with respect to its main attributes noun
- the current state of knowledge