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单词 micronation
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micronationn.

Brit. /ˈmʌɪkrə(ʊ)ˌneɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈmaɪkroʊˌneɪʃən/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: micro- comb. form, nation n.1
Etymology: < micro- comb. form + nation n.1, after French micronation (1961 in the passage translated in quot. 1961 at sense 1).
1. A very small group of people having a single ethnic, religious, or cultural affiliation.In quot. 1971 = microstate n. 2.
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1961 M. Cook tr. M. Dia Afr. Nations & World Solidarity 143 We are faced with micronationalisms that need be tamed, micronations [Fr. des micro-nations] that will have to be organized.
1971 Chicago Tribune 31 Jan. vi. 12/1 Monaco, this postage stamp country affixed to France's southern shore, a 370-acre micro-nation.
2005 D. Walker Islam & Search for Afr.-Amer. Nationhood 570 Muhammad's followers..gradually put together many..attributes of a spatially scattered but culturally well-distinguished micro-nation throughout Black America.
2. An area or territory, typically small and with relatively few inhabitants (and often having some of the political and social apparatus of a nation-state), that claims national sovereignty despite not being recognized by most or all other nation-states.Distinguished from microstate n. 2, which generally refers to sovereign states.
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society > authority > rule or government > a or the state > [noun] > small or petty
petty-weal1628
statelet1851
micronation1992
1992 Toronto Star (Nexis) 17 Jan. a21 The dissolution of the Soviet Union might be followed by the dissolution of its former republics into new micro-nations like Ossetia, Gaugaz, Chechen.
1996 Gazette (Montreal) 1 Apr. b3/3 The list of micro-nations is long and colorful. The spirit of new nation-building..is seductive.
2000 Wired July 232/3 Sealand does exist—it's a real, live, passport-issuing, artificial micronation that's been around since 1967.
2005 Economist 24 Dec. 40/1 Some people think one of these ‘micronations’ could eventually be accepted as a legitimate state.
2015 Austral. Mag. (Nexis) 23 May 38 Last month,..self-proclaimed President Vit Jedlicka, 31, declared the micronation of Liberland open for business.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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