nation-state
A political entity associated with a common national identity and a sovereign…A political entity (a state) associated with a common national identity (historically, culturally, or ethnically; as with a nation) and a sovereign territorial unit.
Meaning
2 sensesA political entity (a state) associated with a common national identity (historically, culturally, or ethnically; as with a nation) and a sovereign territorial unit.
Nationalstaat
национа́льное госуда́рствоnacionálʹnoje gosudárstvo, госуда́рство-на́цияgosudárstvo-nácija
націона́льна держа́ваnacionálʹna deržáva
(broadly, proscribed)Any independent political state; a country.
Translations
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Origin
Compound of nation + state. Coined c. 1890s under the influence of European languages; comCompound of nation + state. Coined c. 1890s under the influence of European languages; compare German Nationalstaat (from 1840s), Italian Stato-nazione (from 1860s).
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