CITY-STATE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A state consisting of a sovereign city

Synonyms:

city-state; city state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("city-state" is a kind of...):

body politic; commonwealth; country; land; nation; res publica; state (a politically organized body of people under a single government)

Instance hyponyms:

Carthage (an ancient city state on the north African coast near modern Tunis; founded by Phoenicians; destroyed and rebuilt by Romans; razed by Arabs in 697)

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