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CITY-STATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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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