micronation
nounEtymology
From micro- (“very small”) + nation (“a sovereign state; country”). Compare microcountry, mini-nation, mini-country and ministate. The first sense was coined on 11 March 1973 by the editors of the Lansing State Journal (see quotations) in a republication of an article by Philip J. Hilts, originally writing for Potomac Magazine (Sunday supplement to The Washington Post), and so-called because most micronations are small in size. The article was referring to the unrecognised political entities listed in the Ephemeral States file, a collection of physical micronational records maintained by the Office of the Geographer of the United States Department of State, launched in 1933.
Definitions
A non-autonomous entity that claims to be a sovereign state and mimics the actions of a…
A non-autonomous entity that claims to be a sovereign state and mimics the actions of a state (with varying degrees of seriousness), but lacks any legal recognition and exists only on paper or in the mind of its creator; a micronational entity.
- 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.
- Oceanus ... This is the world's largest micronation, taking up all the seas of the world beyond national 3-mi. limits.
- The list of micro-nations is long and colorful. The spirit of new nation-building that resonates from King Robert's descriptions of these countries, is seductive.
Synonym of microstate (“a country that has a very small population and land area”).
- The concept of an independent Bougainville is sometimes denounced because such a micronation would necessarily restrict the scope of employment opportunities while increasing the frustrations of educated Bougainvilleans.
- Europe already has workable arrangements with micro-nations like Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Andorra and San Marino.
A small nation (“historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a…
A small nation (“historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and manifested in a common culture”).
- Careful groundwork had given Germany a highly unified micronation within the boundaries of Argentina, in many ways better prepared and better organized than the Argentine nation itself.
- We are faced with micronationalisms that need be tamed, micronations that will have to be organized.
The neighborhood
- synonymMN
- synonymephemeral state
- synonymmicronational entity
- synonymmodel country
- synonymnew country project
- synonymproject nation
- synonymmicronation
- synonymcountercountry
- synonymmodel nation
- synonymmicropatria
- synonymmicrocountry
- synonymmini-country
- antonymmacronation
- antonymcountry
- antonymnation
- antonymsovereign state
- neighbormicropatriology
- neighborcybernation
- neighbornetwork state
- neighborronation
- neighboraspirant state
- neighbormicronational entity
- neighborpolitical entity
- neighborpseudonation
- neighborgovernment
- neighborbedroom nation
- neighborbug nation
- neighboregonation
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for micronation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA