sovereign state

sovereign state

English

Noun

sovereign state (plural sovereign states)

1. A state (country) which has sovereignty over a defined geographic area, is independent of any other country, and has its own government.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:country

   • 2022 July 1, The Japan Times Editorial Board, “Groundbreaking NATO summit means work for Japan”, in The Japan Times‎, archived from the original on 01 July 2022, Editorials:

     Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has demonstrated that physical aggression against a sovereign state is a real danger.

Translations

completely independent state

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Armenian: please add this translation if you can Catalan: estat sobirà m Chinese: Mandarin: 主權國／主权国 (zh) (zhǔquánguó), 主權國家／主权国家 (zh) (zhǔquán guójiā) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: itsenäinen valtio French: état souverain m Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: souveräner Staat m Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Italian: stato sovrano (it) m Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Northern Sami: iehčanas riika Polish: państwo suwerenne n Portuguese: estado soberano m Romanian: stat suveran n Slovak: please add this translation if you can Spanish: estado soberano m Swedish: suverän stat c Tagalog: higpunong banwa Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: quốc gia có chủ quyền, quốc gia độc lập

Further reading

• sovereign state at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “sovereign state”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• State/Nation-State, princeton.edu
• Sovereignty, plato.stanford.edu
• Nation-State, encyclopedia.com