statewide

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/steɪtˈwaɪd/

adjective

Happening in or affecting an entire state (political subdivision of a federal union).

CommonScrabble 13

Meanings

adjectivestatewide (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHappening in or affecting an entire state (political subdivision of a federal union).

    The 1963-founded Surfing Victoria meanwhile held regional and statewide contests; today the organization schedules more than 25 statewide pro and amateur events each year.

    2003, Matt Warshaw, The Encyclopedia of Surfing, Harcourt,, →ISBN, page 670
    2 more examples

    School monies are derived from two general sources in Georgia—State taxes and local taxes. ¶ The State secures money for its school funds from two sources—a statewide general property tax, and a unit of measure tax on gasoline and kerosene.

    1933, "Negro Education in Georgia", The Crisis, volume 40 (W. E. Burghardt Du Bois, ed.), page 180

    Fewer Saxon and Bavarian cities attempted to implement mandatory stunning laws, but their state parliaments debated the possibility of creating statewide bans on kosher butchering.

    2007, Robin Judd, Contested Rituals, Cornell University Press,, →ISBN, page 145

    Synonyms: cantonwide, provincewide

  2. not comparableHappening in or affecting an entire sovereign state; nationwide.

    Along with the rise of modern states came the establishment of statewide official currencies with the aim of protecting the corresponding markets and increasing trade within state territories.

    2007, Josep M. Colomer, Great Empires, Small Nations, Routledge,, →ISBN, page 46
    2 more examples

    But should economic science further such attempts by accepting those doctrines at their face value, couching all its discourse in terms of statewide economies, and making its basic estimates in terms of national totals, i.e., totals for the relatively artificial boundaries of states?

    1941, Simon Kuznets, National Income and Its Composition, 1919–1938, volume 1, page 51

    All their activities in the economic and political sphere were related to the state’s law and were performed within the statewide market for labor and commodities, and their citizen’s rights could be exercised in state elections. All these facts and forces favored the identification of the people with their state but they did not explain why this state had to be national, why the national ties were developed simultaneously with the creation of citizen states.

    1993, Zdzisław Mach, Symbols, Conflict, and Identity, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, pages 96–97

    Synonyms: countrywide, national, nationwide

adverbstatewide (not comparable)
  1. not comparableThroughout a state (political subdivision of a federal union).

    The state of Jalisco hired a single pharmacy company to provide all such medicines statewide.

    2011, Marc J. Roberts, Michael R. Reich, Pharmaceutical Reform, The World Bank, →ISBN, page 152
    2 more examples

    Sharks are an ever-present hazard in South Australia…as of 2002 there had been nearly 50 attacks statewide, including a 48-hour period in September 2000 that saw two surfer fatalities.

    2003, Matt Warshaw, The Encyclopedia of Surfing, Harcourt,, →ISBN, page 554

    After an unsuccessful attempt to have The Grapes of Wrath banned statewide (the effort backfired), the AF commissioned and distributed a barrage of counternarratives.

    2005, Douglas Cazaux Sackman, Orange Empire: California and the Fruits of Eden, University of California Press,, →ISBN, page 280

    Synonyms: cantonwide, provincewide

  2. not comparableThroughout a sovereign state; nationwide.

    Alternatives to the core Spanish identity were pressing only in the Catalon and Basque regions and not statewide.

    2004, Carol Skalnik Leff, “Democratization and Disintegration in the Multinational States: The Breakup of the Communist Federations”, in Timothy J. Sinclair, editor, Global Governance, volume II, Routledge, →ISBN, page 166
    2 more examples

    In the end, the Communist Party scored a stunning victory in the 26 May 1946 election, winning more than 40 percent in the Czech provinces and taking a substantial plurality of the vote statewide.

    2005, Benjamin Frommer, National Cleansing, Cambridge University Press,, →ISBN, page 216

    The Solomons do not cohere ethnographically (there are 70 languages spoken statewide) and nor are they likely to, at least, not in the short term. This does not bode well for the capacity of any Solomons government to win national legitimacy.

    2012, Ralph Pettman, Psychopathology and World Politics, World Scientific,, →ISBN, page 179

    Synonyms: countrywide, nationally, nationwide

nounstatewide (plural statewides)

plural statewides

  1. USAn agency or association operating through a state (political subdivision).

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveHappening in or affecting an entire state (political subdivision of a federal union).

Similar
cantonwideprovincewide

adjectiveHappening in or affecting an entire sovereign state; nationwide.

adverbThroughout a state (political subdivision of a federal union).

Similar
cantonwideprovincewide

adverbThroughout a sovereign state; nationwide.

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiveoccurring or extending throughout a state

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s
  3. Proto-Italic*status
  4. Latinstatu
  5. Old Frenchestat
  6. Middle Englishstat
  7. Englishstate
  8. Proto-Indo-European*dwóh₁
  9. Proto-Indo-European*dwi-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*h₁weydʰh₁-
  12. Proto-Indo-European*h₁weydʰh₁ós
  13. Proto-Germanic*wīdaz
  14. Old Englishwīd
  15. Englishwide
  16. Englishstatewide

From state + -wide.

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Czech celostátní
  • celostátníhappening in or affecting an entire sovereign state — see also nationwide, countrywide
Polish ogólnostanowy, ogólnopaństwowy
  • ogólnostanowyhappening in or affecting an entire state (political subdivision of a federal union)
  • ogólnopaństwowyhappening in or affecting an entire sovereign state — see also nationwide, countrywide
Russian общегосуда́рственный
  • общегосуда́рственный (obščegosudárstvennyj)happening in or affecting an entire sovereign state — see also nationwide, countrywide
Ukrainian загальнодержа́вний
  • загальнодержа́вний (zahalʹnoderžávnyj)happening in or affecting an entire sovereign state — see also nationwide, countrywide
Vietnamese toàn bang, toàn tiểu bang
  • toàn banghappening in or affecting an entire state (political subdivision of a federal union)
  • toàn tiểu banghappening in or affecting an entire state (political subdivision of a federal union)

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with statewide

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“statewide.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/statewide. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “statewide,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/statewide.

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