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statehood

  • /ˈsteɪthʊd/

noun statehoods

  1. countable, uncountable The property of being a state, an autonomous subdivision of a federal country. Alaska didn't attain statehood until 1959, when it became the 49th state of the United States.
  2. countable, uncountable The condition of being a country. Medvedev cited these supposed “Western analysts” in order to propagate Russia’s colonial fantasy: envisioning Ukraine’s territory reduced to just the Kyiv region, while the remainder of Ukraine would be divided among Russia, Poland, Romania, and Hungary. Such a narrative recalls Putin’s February 202

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Closest in meaning: nationhood, nation-building, sovereignty, nation, statecraft, country, rule, autonomy, founding, status, entity, integrity, independence, stat, states, state

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noun property of being a state

Españolcondición de estado, estadidad
Portuguêsestadualidade
DeutschStaatlichkeit
Русскийгосуда́рственность gosudárstvennostʹ

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@misc{statehood_2026,
  title = {statehood},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/statehood},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}