city state

1. 1.

   a state consisting of a sovereign city

   Synonymscity-state

   Broaderstate

   NarrowerCarthage

Questions about city state

What does city state mean?

city state means "a state consisting of a sovereign city".

What is another word for city state?

Close synonyms include city-state. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is city state a common word?

city state is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.