Micronation

Quick meaning: Micronation is a noun meaning Synonym of microstate (“a country that has a very small population and land area”).

Meaning

Synonym of microstate (“a country that has a very small population and land area”).

More Meanings

1. (uncommon) 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”).
2. 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.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• micronations
• micro-nation

Synonyms for micronation

Depending on context, synonyms include MN, countercountry, micropatria, microcountry, mini-country, mini-nation.

Antonyms for micronation

Common opposites include macronation, country, nation.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mini-nation, microcountry, micropatria, micropatriology, microstate, micropatrology.

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