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anthrostates

anthrostates is the plural of anthrostate.

Meaning of anthrostate

Noun

anthrostate (plural anthrostates)

  1. A political unit that is defined by its population and ideas rather than geographical borders.
    • Weinersmith, who is best known for his webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, describes the polystate as a geopolitical entity in which multiple overlapping states exist — but each “state” consists of citizens who have agreed to the laws of a single non-geographic state; typical...2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2021

Questions about anthrostates

What is anthrostates the plural of?
Anthrostates is the plural of anthrostate.

Words near anthrostates in the dictionary

  1. anthroscopic
  2. anthrose
  3. anthrosol
  4. anthrosols
  5. anthrostate
  6. anthrostates
  7. anthrosylvan
  8. anthroturbation
  9. anthrozoological
  10. anthrozoologist
  11. anthrozoologists

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