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purple state

purple state noun: a swing state.

Noun

purple state (plural purple states)

  1. (US) A swing state.
    • “I have loved this purple state that I’ve grown up in,” said Mallerie Stromswold, a former Republican lawmaker who left the Legislature earlier this year after she clashed with party leaders over a series of proposed transgender bills and closed-door meetings, she said, devolved into yelling and...2023 April 27, Jim Robbins, Mike Baker, Jacey Fortin, quoting Mallerie Stromswold, “A Transgender Lawmaker Is Exiled as Montana G.O.P. Flexes New Power”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

purple state meaning in Tamil and Vietnamese

purple state in Tamil

சமமான குடியாட்சி

purple state in Vietnamese

swing state
tiểu bang tím, bang tím

Forms of purple state

pluralpurple states

Origin of purple state

Compound of purple + state, modeled on blue state and red state. From purple being a blend of blue and red colors, where the color representing the Democratic Party of the United States is blue and that representing the Republican Party of the United States is red.

Questions about purple state

What does purple state mean?
Purple state means a swing state.
What is purple state in Tamil?
Purple state in Tamil is சமமான குடியாட்சி. See Purple state meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is purple state?
Purple state is a noun.
What is the plural of purple state?
The plural of purple state is purple states.

Words near purple state in the dictionary

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  2. purple socks
  3. purple spurge
  4. purple squirrel
  5. purple squirrels
  6. purple state
  7. purple states
  8. purple storm snail
  9. purple storm snails
  10. purple sulfur bacterium
  11. purple swamphen

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Adapted from Wiktionary: purple state (page history and authors); purple state (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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