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CITY STATE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does city state mean?
• CITY STATE (noun)
The noun CITY STATE has 1 sense:
1. a state consisting of a sovereign city
Familiarity information: CITY STATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state consisting of a sovereign city
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
city-state; city state
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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