Definition of Statehood

1. n. The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.

Definition of Statehood

1. Noun. The property of being a state. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Statehood

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Statehood

state treasurer
state trooper
state variable
stateable
statechart
statecharts
statecraft
statecrafts
stated
stated-income
stated income
statedly
stateful
statefully
statefulness
statehood (current term)
statehooder
statehooders
statehoods
statehouse
statehouses
stateless
stateless person
statelessly
statelessness
statelessnesses
statelet
statelets
statelier
stateliest

Literary usage of Statehood

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History and Civics of Oklahoma by Luther Jewett Abbott (1910)
"Struggle for statehood. Four important questions agitated the people of ... 206); (4) whether the territory was ever to be given statehood in any form. ..."

2. A History of Oklahoma by Joseph Bradfield Thoburn, Isaac Mason Holcomb (1908)
"Single and Separate statehood. —Shortly after the Fifty-third Congress convened. Delegate Flynn introduced a bill to provide for the admission of Oklahoma ..."

3. The Works of Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt (1901)
"MANHOOD AND statehood ADDRESS AT THE QUARTER-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF statehood IN ... With the exception of the admission to statehood of California, ..."

4. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1905)
"They had been striving to come into the rights and privileges of citizenship, they had sought statehood, they had tried in every way to accommodate ..."

5. The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt (1902)
"With the exception of the admission to statehood of California, no other event emphasized in such.dramatic fashion the full meaning of the growth of our ..."

6. The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt (1901)
"With the exception of the admission to statehood of California, no other event emphasized in such.dramatic fashion the full meaning of the growth of our ..."

7. History of the Theory of Sovereignty Since Rousseau by Charles Edward Merriam (1900)
"In other words, is it not possible to separate sovereignty from statehood, to maintain that sovereignty is not an essential mark of the State ? ..."

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