cit·y-state (s t  -st t)n. A sovereign state consisting of an independent city and its surrounding territory. |
city-state
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(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a state consisting of a sovereign city and its dependencies. Among the most famous are the great independent cities of the ancient world, such as Athens, Sparta, Carthage, and Rome
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| Noun | 1. | city-state - a state consisting of a sovereign city body politic, country, nation, res publica, commonwealth, state, land - a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" |
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