superstate

American  

[soo-per-steyt] / ˈsu pərˌsteɪt /

noun

1. a state or a governing power presiding over states subordinated to it.

2. an extremely powerful centralized government maintaining close control or supervision over its member states and their inhabitants.

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superstate British  

/ ˈsuːpəˌsteɪt /

noun

1. a large state, esp created from a federation of states

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Etymology

Origin of superstate

super- + state

Example Sentences

From Orwell’s evocation of the totalitarian superstate of Oceania, new words entered the language: doublethink, thoughtcrime, newspeak and Big Brother.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2019

There will be no shortage of pop-up Moscow expertise over the next few days, plenty of just-add-water holding forth on the exact scope and meaning of Putin’s sui generis superstate.

From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2018

But none of these leaders thought that they were building—or wanted to build—a cosmopolitan superstate, the aspiration of many Europeans today.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2016

After nearly five years in Texas, the theme has only intensified: the metamorphosis of Texas, the country’s second-most populous state, into ultra-Texas, of a singular state into a singular superstate.

From New York Times • May 7, 2016

A tribunal which was charged with the duty of determining changes in frontiers would clearly be a superstate, full-fledged, and in any sense of that much abused term.

From The Geneva Protocol by Miller, David Hunter