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bedroom nation

noun

Etymology

From bedroom + nation, as a clipping of micronation.

  1. derived from nātiōnem
  2. derived from nacion
  3. inherited from nacioun
  4. compounded as bedroom nation — “bedroom + nation”

Definitions

  1. A micronation located solely in a bedroom (or, less strictly, any room).

    • At first he wanted to call it Seltsam ('silly', in German), but instead settled on The Kingdom of Talossa, "talossa" [author's italics] being Finnish for "inside the house," the perfect name for a bedroom nation.
    • While there has never been a macronational bedroom nation, some exclaves have been barely larger.
    • Not counting a secessionist bedroom-nation I had as a kid (briefly allied with Sander Dieleman’s Pacary), my first introduction to micronations as this sector understands them was in the spring of 2003.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA