Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small state.
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- noun A very small
nation-state , or a region that acts like a nation-state
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is, they assert, a noble statelet which is as close to a socialist utopia as we're going to get in this lifetime and would be even better if those mean Americans lifted their sanctions.
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It is, they assert, a noble statelet which is as close to a socialist utopia as we're going to get in this lifetime and would be even better if those mean Americans lifted their sanctions.
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It is, they assert, a noble statelet which is as close to a socialist utopia as we're going to get in this lifetime and would be even better if those mean Americans lifted their sanctions.
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It is, they assert, a noble statelet which is as close to a socialist utopia as we're going to get in this lifetime and would be even better if those mean Americans lifted their sanctions.
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The reality now is a kind of "ten percent solution," a rump statelet without sovereignty, freedom of movement, or control of its own land, air, or water.
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On the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen is the one imminent security threat, as an al Qaeda offshoot carves out a statelet from the unraveling of the sitting regime.
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Dodik has threatened to secede and create an independent statelet.
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A rather tough read about the arrival of the American oil companies in an unnamed Arab statelet, and the social disruption that this inflicts on the population.
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Dodik has threatened to secede and create an independent statelet.
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Dodik has threatened to secede and create an independent statelet.
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Rhode Island?
September 1, 2008
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Delaware?
September 1, 2008
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South Ossetia?
September 1, 2008