city state

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

From city + state.

Noun

city state (plural city states)

1. A sovereign city, as in Ancient Greece, often part of a federation of such cities.

Translations

a sovereign city

• French: cité-État (fr) f
• German: Stadtstaat (de) m
• Greek: πόλη (el) (póli) f 

  Ancient: πόλις (polis) f

• Hungarian: városállam (hu)
• Latvian: pilsētvalsts (lv) f

• Portuguese: cidade-estado (pt) f
• Russian: город-государство (ru) (górod-gosudárstvo) m 
• Spanish: ciudad estado (es) m
• Swedish: stadsstat (sv) c
• Volapük: zifatat (vo)