stateling
stateling noun: a statelet; a very small nation-state, or a region that acts like a nation-state.
Noun
stateling (plural statelings)
- A statelet; a very small nation-state, or a region that acts like a nation-state.
- […]Following the lead / Of some sly stateling, one by one depart / The muster'd conclave, till the bounds are broke / In order unimpeached. […]1855 December, Jacques Delille, “The Ingle-Nook”, in The Dublin University Magazine, volume XLVI, number CCLXXVI, page 641
- With the exception of France, whom the Americans would, perhaps, challenge for seeming now to prejudge the case against them, and Spain jealous for Cuba and Porto Rico, there is scarcely a State or Stateling in European Christendom, from Russia down to the Free Towns of Hamburg, Lubeck, or Bremen...1861 December 21, “The Case of Trent. Letter III. Extra-legal Aspects of the Difficulty”, in The Spectator, volume 34, number 1747, page 1396
Examples of stateling in a sentence
- Nor could she be delighted by the fact that Koweit, that ticklish Arab stateling at the head of the Gulf, was named as the terminus of the line,[…]1916 April, H. G. Dwight, “The Campaign in Western Asia”, in The Yale Review, volume 5, number 3, page 515:
- And wherever a vernacular could be found that was at all different from Russian its nationalist followers were enrolled and the new stateling was told to be permanent.1925 February, S. C. Gilfillan, “European Political Boundaries”, in The Historical Outlook, volume 16, number 2, page 70:
- Every spectator and every signer found voice; cheer after cheer bade the infant stateling welcome and a long life. ...1934, Julian Dana, “The Breeze-Whipped Sails” (chapter XLII), in Sutter of California: A Biography, The Press of Pioneers Inc., page 349:
Forms of stateling
| plural | statelings |
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Origin of stateling
From state + -ling.
Questions about stateling
- What does stateling mean?
- Stateling means a statelet; a very small nation-state, or a region that acts like a nation-state.
- How do you use stateling in a sentence?
- Nor could she be delighted by the fact that Koweit, that ticklish Arab stateling at the head of the Gulf, was named as the terminus of the line,[…]
- What part of speech is stateling?
- Stateling is a noun.
- What is the plural of stateling?
- The plural of stateling is statelings.
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