Statewide Meaning
/steɪtˈwaɪd/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjHappening in or affecting an entire state (political subdivision of a federal union).
adjHappening in or affecting an entire sovereign state; nationwide.
Sentence Examples
Tom successfully carried the state with nearly sixty percent of the total statewide vote.
The school was ranked tenth out of three hundred high schools statewide.
Today, they conducted a statewide test for all of the students.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The governor announced a ____ initiative to improve education in every county.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The results of the ____ election were not expected until very late on Tuesday evening this week.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Italic *status Latin statuslbor. Old French estatbor. Middle English stat English state Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ Proto-Indo-European *dwi- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *wīdaz Old English wīd English wide English -wide English statewide From state + -wide.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"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:
"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:
"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:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The governor announced a ____ initiative to improve education in every county.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The results of the ____ election were not expected until very late on Tuesday evening this week.