"lie in state" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lies in state",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lying in state",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lay in state",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lain in state",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lie<,,lay,lain> in state"
      },
      "expansion": "lie in state (third-person singular simple present lies in state, present participle lying in state, simple past lay in state, past participle lain in state)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 October 19, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Cummings to Lie in State in the Capitol”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "Representative Elijah E. Cummings, whose death on Thursday left both Republicans and Democrats mourning the loss of a lawmaker they praised as passionate and decent, will lie in state in the Capitol, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday. […] No African-Americans have lain in state in the Rotunda, and only two have lain there in honor: Mrs. Parks in 2005 and Officer Jacob Joseph Chestnut, a Capitol Police officer killed in the line of duty, in 1998.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 12, “The Queen to lie in state in London: everything you need to know”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "The Queen will lie in state at Westminster Hall in London from Wednesday at 5pm until 6:30am Monday 19 September.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of the ceremony of having a deceased official, such as a head of state, be placed in a state building to allow the public to pay their respects, often followed by a state funeral."
      ],
      "id": "en-lie_in_state-en-verb-VYMqYwW5",
      "links": [
        [
          "head of state",
          "head of state"
        ],
        [
          "pay their respects",
          "pay one's respects"
        ],
        [
          "state funeral",
          "state funeral"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) Of the ceremony of having a deceased official, such as a head of state, be placed in a state building to allow the public to pay their respects, often followed by a state funeral."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lie in state"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lies in state",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lying in state",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lay in state",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lain in state",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "lie<,,lay,lain> in state"
      },
      "expansion": "lie in state (third-person singular simple present lies in state, present participle lying in state, simple past lay in state, past participle lain in state)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2019 October 19, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Cummings to Lie in State in the Capitol”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "Representative Elijah E. Cummings, whose death on Thursday left both Republicans and Democrats mourning the loss of a lawmaker they praised as passionate and decent, will lie in state in the Capitol, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday. […] No African-Americans have lain in state in the Rotunda, and only two have lain there in honor: Mrs. Parks in 2005 and Officer Jacob Joseph Chestnut, a Capitol Police officer killed in the line of duty, in 1998.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022 September 12, “The Queen to lie in state in London: everything you need to know”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "The Queen will lie in state at Westminster Hall in London from Wednesday at 5pm until 6:30am Monday 19 September.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of the ceremony of having a deceased official, such as a head of state, be placed in a state building to allow the public to pay their respects, often followed by a state funeral."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "head of state",
          "head of state"
        ],
        [
          "pay their respects",
          "pay one's respects"
        ],
        [
          "state funeral",
          "state funeral"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) Of the ceremony of having a deceased official, such as a head of state, be placed in a state building to allow the public to pay their respects, often followed by a state funeral."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lie in state"
}