Definition of microstate in English:
microstate
noun ˈmʌɪkrəʊsteɪtˈmaɪkroʊˌsteɪt
A very small country.
he was granted a diplomatic passport by the European microstate of San Marino
the places with the highest per capita income tend to be microstates
Example sentencesExamples
- As a poor island microstate, São Tomé has limited options as a result of small markets and poor infrastructure.
- The Tokelauans, a Polynesian people, are reluctant over any change in status which would create the world's ultimate microstate.
- Its sovereignty as a European microstate goes back to Charlemagne, who wrested this area of the Pyrenees from the Moors in the ninth century.
- He is the most pampered prisoner in the world, the sole inmate of the only jail in the microstate of San Marino.
- Andorra, historically, was a rural microstate whose population oscillated between 4,000 and 6,000 inhabitants.
Definition of microstate in US English:
microstate
nounˈmaɪkroʊˌsteɪtˈmīkrōˌstāt
A very small country.
he was granted a diplomatic passport by the European microstate of San Marino
the places with the highest per capita income tend to be microstates
Example sentencesExamples
- Andorra, historically, was a rural microstate whose population oscillated between 4,000 and 6,000 inhabitants.
- He is the most pampered prisoner in the world, the sole inmate of the only jail in the microstate of San Marino.
- Its sovereignty as a European microstate goes back to Charlemagne, who wrested this area of the Pyrenees from the Moors in the ninth century.
- The Tokelauans, a Polynesian people, are reluctant over any change in status which would create the world's ultimate microstate.
- As a poor island microstate, São Tomé has limited options as a result of small markets and poor infrastructure.