superstate

American  

[soo-per-stayt] / 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

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Example Sentences

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superstate

“I trust that citizens can themselves decide whether they want to consume tobacco products or not, and there is no need for a superstate that regulates the sector more strongly,” he said.

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2022

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

In 1984, a superstate wields extreme control over the people and persecutes any form of independent thought.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 24, 2017

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

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 David Hunter Miller

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