city state

See also: city-state

English

Alternative forms

• city-state

Etymology

Calque of German Stadtstaat.

Noun

city state (plural city states)

1. A sovereign city, as in Ancient Greece, often part of a league of such cities.

   Singapore is the world's most populous city state.

Synonyms

• polis (Greek contexts); civitas (uncommon)

Translations

sovereign city

• Catalan: ciutat estat f
• Finnish: kaupunkivaltio (fi)
• French: cité-État (fr) f
• Galician: cidade estado f
• Georgian: ქალაქ-სახელმწიფო (kalak-saxelmc̣ipo)
• German: Stadtstaat (de) m
• Greek: πόλη (el) f (póli)

  Ancient: πόλις f (pólis)

• Hungarian: városállam (hu)
• Italian: città-stato (it) f or f pl
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• Latin: cīvitās (la) f
• Latvian: pilsētvalsts f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bystat m

  Nynorsk: bystat m

• Portuguese: cidade-estado (pt) f
• Russian: го́род-госуда́рство (ru) m (górod-gosudárstvo)
• Spanish: ciudad estado m
• Swedish: stadsstat (sv) c
• Volapük: zifatat

Further reading

• city-state on Wikipedia.Wikipedia