Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun city_state

1 sense of city state

Sense 1
city state, city-state -- (a state consisting of a sovereign city)
       => state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic -- (a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land")