city-state
noun
ˈsi-tē-ˌstāt 
also -ˈstāt
: an autonomous state consisting of a city and surrounding territory
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Singapore Singapore is home to one of the world’s top airports, thriving shopping malls for every budget, one of the best food scenes in the world, and an excellent public transit system that makes everything in this city-state easy to access.
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Meena Thiruvengadam, Contributor, CNBC, 30 Nov. 2024
In the movie, Macrinus buys Lucius (Paul Mescal), who was brought to Rome from a conquered city-state, not realizing that Lucius is the illegitimate grandson of the great Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.
—Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
Now the competitions that once united the fractured city-states of Greece connect people around the globe.
—Miriam Kamil, JSTOR Daily, 20 Nov. 2024
While Mesopotamia was sprouting city-states along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and building massive monuments like the Ziggurat of Ur (in what is now Iraq), development in Arabia appears to have been smaller, slower, and more modest, according to a report in PLOS ONE.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
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Meena Thiruvengadam, Contributor, CNBC, 30 Nov. 2024
In the movie, Macrinus buys Lucius (Paul Mescal), who was brought to Rome from a conquered city-state, not realizing that Lucius is the illegitimate grandson of the great Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.
—Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
Now the competitions that once united the fractured city-states of Greece connect people around the globe.
—Miriam Kamil, JSTOR Daily, 20 Nov. 2024
While Mesopotamia was sprouting city-states along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and building massive monuments like the Ziggurat of Ur (in what is now Iraq), development in Arabia appears to have been smaller, slower, and more modest, according to a report in PLOS ONE.
—Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2024
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“City-state.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/city-state. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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