as in nation-state
Related Words
Relevance
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of microstate
No nation in the world — at least beyond a few microstates within a broader customs union — has no customs enforcement whatsoever.
—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
Pope Leo on Saturday made a day trip to Monaco, a tax-free microstate on the French Riviera known as a haven for billionaires and their luxury yachts, and urged its residents to share their wealth and help those in need.
—
Reuters,
NBC news,
28 Mar. 2026
The incident drew outcry from the microstate’s tiny Jewish community, which only just got its first full-time rabbi, a Chabad emissary, in the last two years.
—
Grace Gilson,
Sun Sentinel,
23 Feb. 2026
Mini, competing in slalom and giant slalom events, hails from San Marino, the second-smallest independent microstate in Italy, one covering only 25 square miles of the Apennine Mountains.
—
Brittany Ghiroli,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
Swiatek will likely also pay an additional 4% tax in Poland, reducing her championship winnings by an additional $162,000.
Sinner, originally from Italy, will pay no additional taxes because his primary residence is in the income tax-free microstate of Monaco.
—
Ty Roush,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
According to the 2025 Knight Frank Wealth Report, a cool $1 million will get you just 205 square feet of space in this glittering microstate on the French Riviera.
—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
12 Mar. 2025
Surrounded by Italy on all sides, this microstate — the third smallest in Europe — has stubbornly clung to its independence over the centuries, even as revolutions and world wars swirled around it.
—
Elizabeth Heath,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Oct. 2024
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
Pope Leo on Saturday made a day trip to Monaco, a tax-free microstate on the French Riviera known as a haven for billionaires and their luxury yachts, and urged its residents to share their wealth and help those in need.
—
Reuters,
NBC news,
28 Mar. 2026
The incident drew outcry from the microstate’s tiny Jewish community, which only just got its first full-time rabbi, a Chabad emissary, in the last two years.
—
Grace Gilson,
Sun Sentinel,
23 Feb. 2026
Mini, competing in slalom and giant slalom events, hails from San Marino, the second-smallest independent microstate in Italy, one covering only 25 square miles of the Apennine Mountains.
—
Brittany Ghiroli,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
Swiatek will likely also pay an additional 4% tax in Poland, reducing her championship winnings by an additional $162,000.
Sinner, originally from Italy, will pay no additional taxes because his primary residence is in the income tax-free microstate of Monaco.
—
Ty Roush,
Forbes.com,
13 July 2025
According to the 2025 Knight Frank Wealth Report, a cool $1 million will get you just 205 square feet of space in this glittering microstate on the French Riviera.
—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
12 Mar. 2025
Surrounded by Italy on all sides, this microstate — the third smallest in Europe — has stubbornly clung to its independence over the centuries, even as revolutions and world wars swirled around it.
—
Elizabeth Heath,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for microstate
Noun
-
Louden points out, for example, that Swedish and Norwegian are highly mutually intelligible, but neither is considered a dialect of the other, or of a parent language, primarily because each is associated with a separate nation-state.
-
In the world of Berle and Means, firms operated mostly within the boundaries of nation-states.
Noun
-
The suspect was a 36-year-old man who carried a passport belonging to the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia, Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński said at a news conference in Warsaw.
-
The humanities will survive not by defending an imagined past of disinterested purity, but by demonstrating their necessity in a fractured republic.
Noun
-
Athens was a belligerent city-state that fell victim to its own aggressions.
-
The ultra-wealthy city-state of Monaco on the French Riviera is no stranger to luxury hotels—fellow grand dames Hôtel de Paris and Hermitage sit at the heart of the action around Casino Square—each vying to outdo the other with fancy arrivals and impeccably discreet service.
Noun
-
Britain already has the highest borrowing costs in the Group of Seven wealthy nations due to its high debt and interest payments.
-
Scotland is a very small nation, six million people who have not been in the World Cup in 28 years.
Noun
-
From its earliest days, Anthropic identified coding as the most important domain in AI to focus on.
-
With the success of Kpop Demon Hunters, Netflix is bringing feature animation squarely under the domain of Hannah Minghella.
Noun
-
Build the empire on top of all of it.
-
What emerges is a portrait of Maurice as both architect and enigma, a man whose creative vision built an empire and whose personal choices left fractures still being processed decades later.
Noun
-
Eight towns in the commonwealth remain dry.
-
The lands historically now known as Ukraine were occupied by the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth for centuries, and many Ukrainians view their nation’s genesis as the rebellion of Cossack Hetman Boghdan Khmelnitsky against the commonwealth, an event characterized by massacres of Poles and Jews.
Noun
-
His ministate is hierarchical, patriarchal and militaristic, a utilitarian utopia rather than a revolutionary experiment.
-
Islamic State also tried to establish a ministate of its own in the Indonesian regency of Poso, on Sulawesi island, in 2015.
Cite this Entry
“Microstate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/microstate. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
