city-state

English Thesaurus

1. a state consisting of a sovereign city (noun.group)

hypernym	:	body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica, state,
definition	:	a politically organized body of people under a single government (noun.group)

instance hyponym	:	carthage,
definition	:	an ancient city state on the north African coast near modern Tunis; founded by Phoenicians; destroyed and rebuilt by Romans; razed by Arabs in 697 (noun.location)