Standard Lemma guide

statehood

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.

  • /ˈsteɪthʊd/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: S T EY1 T HH UH2 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The property of being a state, an autonomous subdivision of a federal country.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Examples

  • Alaska didn't attain statehood until 1959, when it became the 49th state of the United States.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The condition of being a country.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh2- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *stéh2-tu-s ~ *sth2-téw-s Proto-Italic *status Latin statuslbor. Old French estatbor. Middle English stat English state Proto-Indo-European *keyt-der. Proto-Germanic *haiduzder. Proto-West Germanic *-haiduder. Old English -hād Middle English -hede English -hood English statehood From state + -hood.

Across languages

Translations

19 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: պետականություն (petakanutʻyun) — property of being a state
  • Azerbaijani: dövlətçilik — property of being a state
  • Catalan: condició d'estat — property of being a state
  • Czech: státnost — property of being a state
  • Czech: suverenita — property of being a state
  • Finnish: osavaltioasema — property of being a state
  • Finnish: osavaltion asema — property of being a state
  • Finnish: valtion asema — property of being a state
  • German: Staatlichkeit — property of being a state
  • Hungarian: államiság — property of being a state
  • Indonesian: kehidupan bernegara — property of being a state
  • Macedonian: др́жавност (dŕžavnost) — property of being a state
  • Malay: taraf negara — property of being a state
  • Polish: państwowość — property of being a state
  • Portuguese: estadualidade — property of being a state
  • Russian: госуда́рственность (gosudárstvennostʹ) — property of being a state
  • Spanish: condición de estado — property of being a state
  • Spanish: estadidad — property of being a state
  • Ukrainian: держа́вність (deržávnistʹ) — property of being a state
Real reading context

statehood in complete knowledge articles