DEPARTMENT OF STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Department of State mean? 

• DEPARTMENT OF STATE (noun)
  The noun DEPARTMENT OF STATE has 1 sense:

1. the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies

  Familiarity information: DEPARTMENT OF STATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPARTMENT OF STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Department of State; DoS; State; State Department; United States Department of State

Context example:

the Department of State was created in 1789

Hypernyms ("Department of State" is a kind of...):

executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "Department of State"):

Bureau of Diplomatic Security; DS (the bureau in the State Department that is responsible for the security of diplomats and embassies overseas)

Foreign Service (the part of the State Department that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world)

Bureau of Intelligence and Research; INR (an agency that is the primary source in the State Department for interpretive analyses of global developments and focal point for policy issues and activities of the Intelligence Community)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Department of State"):

Foggy Bottom (United States Department of State, which is housed in a building in a low-lying area of Washington near the Potomac River)