How to pronounce “nation-state”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (politics) A political entity (a state) associated with a common national identity (historically, culturally, or ethnically; as with a nation) and a sovereign territorial unit.
• (more generally, proscribed) Any independent political state; a country.

Practice Nearby Words

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Similar Sounds

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