micro-nation
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.02 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "The absence of any action by the United Nations on the crisis in Nigeria is quote puzzling, […] Also, since Nigeria is the cornerstone of the economy of West Africa, many countries around its perimeter will suffer, including many of the "micro-nations" of the U.N. which were the biggest supporters of the actions in The Congo and Rhodesia."
- "You've spent the day in Monaco, this postage stamp country affixed to France's southern shore, a 370-acre micro-nation clinging to rugged cliffs that drop into the clear, blue sea."
- "For every dreamer there is somewhere a doer, and in the realm [of] the strange micro-nations, the Republic of Minerva has plunged a bit ahead of the nebulous status of most others."
- "Leaving aside micro-nations, the Soviet Union is a large Slavic nation state to which are attached some reluctant Europeans in the west, some colonised Muslims in the south, and large tracts of Russified territory in the east."
- "Europe already has workable arrangements with micro-nations like Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Andorra and San Marino."
- "The list of micro-nations is long and colorful. The spirit of new nation-building that resonates from King Robert [Ben Madison]'s descriptions of these countries, is seductive."