purple state
English
noun
Definitions
- (US politics) A swing state. (In the modern United States) a state that may support the Democratic or Republican Party; a state that is equally like to vote for the Democratic or Republican Party in general; a state that behaves as a red state in some given elections and a blue state in other given elections.
Etymology
Compound from English purple + English state (phase of matter).
Origin
English
state
Gloss
phase of matter
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Chinese purple English
- Han purple English
- State of Mississippi English
- antistate English
- bepurple English
- bistate English
- bitstate English
- blue state English
- chain-melted state English
- counterstate English
- downstate English
- eigenstate English
- empurple English
- ethno-state English
- ethnostate English
- forestate English
- immunostate English
- impurple English
- in-state English
- instate English
- interstate English
- intrastate English
- macrostate English
- megastate English
- metastate English
- microstate English
- mindstate English
- ministate English
- misstate English
- multistate English
- narco-state English
- narcostate English
- nonpurple English
- nonstate English
- outstate English
- overstate English
- parastate English
- petrostate English
- princely state English
- pro-state English
- protostate English
- pseudostate English
- purple English
- purple death English
- purpleheart English
- purplely English
- purpleness English
- purpletuft English
- purplewood English
- purplish English
- purply English
- quasistate English
- red state English
- restate English
- savestate English
- semi-state English
- semistate English
- statable English
- statal English
- state English
- state-run English
- statechart English
- statecraft English
- statedom English
- statefinder English
- stateful English
- statefunction English
- statehood English
- statehouse English
- stateless English
- statelet English
- statelike English
- stately English
- statemate English
- statement English
- statemonger English
- stateprison English
- stateroom English
- stateship English
- stateside English
- statesman English
- statesperson English
- stateswoman English
- statewide English
- statie English
- statism English
- statist English
- statocracy English
- statoid English
- statolatry English
- substate English
- superstate English
- suprastate English
- tristate English
- typestate English
- understate English
- unpurple English
- unstate English
- upstate English
- status Latin
- ステート Japanese
- purple Middle English
- estat Old French
- perpol Bislama
- state
- purply
- statie
- statal
- purple
- stately
- statism
- upstate
- statist
- statoid
- instate
- bistate
- unstate
- restate
- statelet
- tristate
- statable
- bitstate
- purplely
- substate
- misstate
- statedom
- in-state
- stateful
- impurple
- outstate
- unpurple
- empurple
- bepurple
- purplish
- nonstate
- downstate
- overstate
- ministate
- antistate
- stateship
- pro-state
- stateroom
- parastate
- stateless
- state-run
- statesman
- metastate
- stateside
- statehood
- semistate
- nonpurple
- statement
- mindstate
- red state
- statemate
- forestate
- savestate
- megastate
- statewide
- typestate
- statelike
- petrostate
- statocracy
- purplewood
- statehouse
- narcostate
- Han purple
- suprastate
- purpletuft
- intrastate
- eigenstate
- multistate
- semi-state
- purpleness
- ethnostate
- statecraft
- understate
- microstate
- blue state
- macrostate
- protostate
- interstate
- quasistate
- statolatry
- superstate
- statechart
- purpleheart
- statefinder
- pseudostate
- statemonger
- narco-state
- stateprison
- stateswoman
- immunostate
- ethno-state
- statesperson
- counterstate
- purple death
- statefunction
- princely state
- Chinese purple
- chain-melted state
- State of Mississippi