BODY POLITIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does body politic mean? 

• BODY POLITIC (noun)
  The noun BODY POLITIC has 1 sense:

1. a politically organized body of people under a single government

  Familiarity information: BODY POLITIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BODY POLITIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A politically organized body of people under a single government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

body politic; commonwealth; country; land; nation; res publica; state

Context example:

an industrialized land

Hypernyms ("body politic" is a kind of...):

political entity; political unit (a unit with political responsibilities)

Meronyms (parts of "body politic"):

estate; estate of the realm; the three estates (a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "body politic"):

commonwealth country (any of the countries in the British Commonwealth)

developing country (a country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically)

Dominion (one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth)

foreign country (any state of which one is not a citizen)

Reich (the German state)

renegade state; rogue nation; rogue state (a state that does not respect other states in its international actions)

suzerain (a state exercising a degree of dominion over a dependent state especially in its foreign affairs)

sea power (a nation that possesses formidable naval strength)

great power; major power; power; superpower; world power (a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world)

city-state; city state (a state consisting of a sovereign city)

ally (a friendly nation)

Instance hyponyms:

Eelam; Tamil Eelam (the independent state that the Tamil Tigers have fought for)