Sealand

English

Etymology

From sea +‎ -land.

In sense 3, a calque of Old Babylonian 𒆳 𒀀𒀊𒁀 (KUR A.AB.BA /⁠māt tâmti⁠/).

Proper noun

Sealand

2. A self-proclaimed micronation (full name: the Principality of Sealand) whose capital is HM Fort Roughs, a former British sea fort.
   • 2024 August 4, Jon Wertheim, “Sealand, world's smallest state, has 1 permanent resident and its own royal family”, in CBS News‎^[1]:

     A crumb of real estate off the English coast that declared its independence in 1967, Sealand has a full-time population of… one.

4. A hamlet and community in Flintshire, Wales, close to Chester in England (OS grid ref SJ3568). It is on land reclaimed from the sea on the Chester side of the River Dee.
6. A dynasty of Bronze Age kings ruling from an as yet unknown capital in southern Babylonia, in what is now Iraq; or the country they ruled.

Derived terms

• Sealander
• Sealandic

Translations

the Principality of Sealand

• Albanian: Silandës
• Arabic: سيلاند, امارة سيلاند (officially)
• Armenian: Սիլենդ (Silend)
• Bashkir: Силенд (Silend)
• Belarusian: Сіленд (Siljend)
• Bengali: সায়রিস্তান (śaẏôriśtan)
• Bulgarian: Сийланд (Sijland)
• Burmese: ဆီလန်နိုင်ငံ (hcilannuingngam)
• Chechen: Силенд (Silend)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 西崙公國 / 西仑公国

  Mandarin: 西蘭 / 西兰 (zh) (Xīlán), 西蘭公國 / 西兰公国 (Xīlán gōngguó) (officially)

• Chuvash: Силэнд (Silend)
• Esperanto: Selando
• French: Sealand (fr), principauté de Sealand (fr) (officially)
• Frisian:

  West Frisian: Seelân

• Georgian: სილენდი (silendi)
• German: Seeland (de) n, Fürstentum Seeland n (officially)
• Hebrew: סילנד
• Hindi: सीलैंड (sīlaiṇḍ)
• Indonesian: Sealandia
• Japanese: シーランド (Shīrando), シーランド公国 (Shīrando kōkoku) (officially)
• Korean: 시랜드 (Siraendeu), 시랜드 공국 (Siraendeu gongguk) (officially)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سیلاند (sîland)

• Lao: ຊີແລນ (sī lǣn)
• Latvian: Sīlenda
• Lithuanian: Sylandas
• Marathi: सीलँड (sīlĕṇḍa)
• Mazanderani: سیلند
• Persian: سیلند
• Portuguese: Sealand f
• Russian: Си́ленд (ru) m (Sílend), Кня́жество Си́ленд m (Knjážestvo Sílend) (officially)
• Spanish: Sealand, Principado de Sealand (officially)
• Tamil: சீலாந்து (cīlāntu)
• Thai: ซีแลนด์
• Ukrainian: Сіландія (uk) f (Silandija), Князівство Сіландія f (Knjazivstvo Silandija)
• Western Armenian: Սիլէնտ (Silēnt)

Anagrams

• denasal

Portuguese

Proper noun

Sealand f

1. Sealand (a micronation in the English Channel)