Usually means: Independent country within a city.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word city state:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. city-state: Merriam-Webster
  2. city state: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. city-state: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. city-state, city-state: Collins English Dictionary
  5. city-state, city state: Vocabulary.com
  6. City-State, City-state, city-state: Wordnik
  7. city-state: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. city-state, city state: Wiktionary
  9. city-state: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. city-state: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. city-state: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. city-state, city state: Dictionary.com
  13. City (Comma) State, City State, City-state, City state: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. city state: Rhymezone
  15. city-state, city state: FreeDictionary.org
  16. city-state, city state: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. city-state, city state: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. city state: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. city-state, city state: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. city state: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (city state)

noun:  A sovereign city, as in Ancient Greece, often part of a league of such cities.

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