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city-state

Word definitions for city-state in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A city-state is a sovereign state that consists of a city and its dependent territories. Historically, this included famous cities like Rome , Athens , Carthage , and the Italian city-states during the Renaissance —but today only a handful of sovereign ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of city state English)

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As cities and their monetary systems organized further into city-states and then into nations, an economic system called mercantilism developed. ▪ However, Eataine is simply the hinterland of the vast city-state of Lothern. ▪ ...

Usage examples of city-state.

People had told him that Southmarch was as nothing compared to Tessis in Syan or the sprawling, ancient city-state of Hierosol with its two-score gates, but here were riches to spare for a young man from dark, lonely Dalers Troth, where earth and sky were both oppressively wet most of the time and in winter the sun seemed scarcely to top the hills.

They go hungry and thirsty, while the City-States along the Dryland border hog all the water sources and grow fat.

Italy seemed to be Florence, thanks to the genius of Gonfaloniere Soderini, who had kept his city-state out of the quarrels, alliances, wars, resolutely holding to the middle ground, offering refuge to both the papal and French soldiers, refusing to house the Pisa Council of protest over Julius, but not attempting to keep it out of Pisa by force.

For it was then that the hieratically ordered city-state came into being, which stands at the source, and for millenniums stood as the model, of all higher, literate civilization whatsoever.

They had spent several days in Tishbaal hub, like the other hubs a relatively compact city-state, but, unlike the others, one that had been under siege for some time.

The treatise was many centuries old, but filled with wisdom that could be transferred from warring Italian city-states to the landholdings of Atlas.

The new city-states of Saturn began to resemble those of ancient Greece, with one group of cities taking on the role of militaristic Sparta .

But I have no desire to get embroiled in the endless squabbling of Italian city-states, much less a feud with the Petrine branch of the church.

The archons of the various city-states had no desire to see a war fleet of blood-thirsty barbarians sailing their way on the excuse of rescuing some unjustly treated kinsman.

He felt that it had been made only to bring out more plainly the philosophy governing the actions of all the denizens of this grand yet hideously savage city-state.

And let word be sent among all the city-states that the Citadel has fallen, that the Lords Protector are human and vulnerable men, that we fight for our own freedom, and if they want to get the bloody Farers off their backs, they had better damned well join us!

Usually Six Duchies contacts with Bingtown were contacts between individual merchants and traders, not their ruling council treating with the Farseers, I tried to recall if the city-state had ever sent us ambassadors when Shrewd was king, then gave it up.

Skeg and the city-states, surely there's a breeze that whispers from your own doorstep.

Then it was a few hundred easy miles to the portal that would take us to the Association of Rivan City-States, one of the lesser timelines of the Confederation.

Indy knew from his studies that the powerful priests who interpreted the babblings of Pythia were at the center of the Amphyctionic League, a coalition of Greek city-states, and were therefore well informed about important activities through the region.