nation state

See also: nation-state

English

Noun

nation state (plural nation states)

  1. Alternative spelling of nation-state.
    • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
      It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […] or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
    • 2018, Momus, “Rootless Cosmopolitans”, in Pantaloon:
      But times have changed, and mother / Standing at the garden gate / Calls us home for dinner / With the nation state
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