statelet

[ steyt-lit ]

noun

1. a small state, especially one resulting from the dissolution of a larger state.

statelet

/ ˈsteɪtlɪt /

noun

1. a small state

   the Gaza Strip statelet

Word History and Origins

Origin of statelet¹

First recorded in 1850–55; state ( def ) + -let ( def )

Example Sentences

I left wondering what exactly it was I had witnessed the previous night: was it a glimpse of the future, in which countries like the United States and the UK would collapse into a spider’s web of corporate societies, a world in which you could choose to become a citizen of a cyber statelet?

From BBC

You would become a citizen of the franchised cyber statelet of your choice.

From BBC

Jeffrey Donaldson, who resigned as leader of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party on Friday, has spent his career defending the political union between Britain and the six-county statelet where he was born 61 years ago.

From New York Times

Yasser Arafat and the leadership of the PLO were allowed to return to Palestine from their exile in Tunisia with the understanding that they would suppress popular hostility to Israel in return for a state, or a statelet, they would rule.

From Slate

Karabakh is viewed internationally as part of Azerbaijan but had been run as a breakaway ethnic Armenian statelet since the 1990s following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

From Reuters