Place and State

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Place noun - The area or space occupied by or intended for something.

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State is a synonym for place in position topic. In some cases you can use "State" instead a noun "Place", when it comes to topics like country.

Nearby Words: placed, placement, placing, placer, placet

State noun - A body of people composed of one or more nationalities usually with its own territory and government.

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Place is a synonym for state. Sometimes you can use "Place" instead the word "State" as a noun or a verb.

ideal	ideal place	ideal state
good	good place	good state
physical	physical place	physical state
similar	similar place	similar state
Other adjectives: normal, usual, right, perfect, original, true, single, entire, bad, terrible, former, final, next, last, different, worse.

It's a place/state where the souls of folks who are headed to heaven are cleaned up of the effects of their sins before they enter the Pearly Gates.

Source: Artistic License Traditional Christianity
Instead, Injun Country as used in media is a state of mind — a place where the normal rules of the Civilized World do not apply, broached only by those daring enough to venture into the unknown.

Source: Injun Country
Whatever a character or a place or a thing or a time changes from one state to another, there is a time in between, a liminal state — from the Latin limen, or threshold.

Source: Liminal Time

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