Sealand

English

Etymology

From sea +‎ -land.

In sense 3, calqued from Old Babylonian Akkadian 𒆳 𒀀𒀊𒁀 (Sumerogram KUR A.AB.BA, Akkadian: māt tâmti).

Proper noun

Sealand

1. A self-proclaimed micronation (full name: the Principality of Sealand) whose capital is HM Fort Roughs, a former British sea fort.
   • 2024 August 4, Jon Wertheim, “Sealand, world's smallest state, has 1 permanent resident and its own royal family”, in CBS News‎^[1]:

     A crumb of real estate off the English coast that declared its independence in 1967, Sealand has a full-time population of… one.

2. A hamlet and community in Flintshire, Wales, close to Chester in England (OS grid ref SJ3568). It is on land reclaimed from the sea on the Chester side of the River Dee.
3. A dynasty of Bronze Age kings ruling from an as yet unknown capital in southern Babylonia, in what is now Iraq; or the country they ruled.

Derived terms

• Sealander
• Sealandic

Translations

the Principality of Sealand

• Arabic: سيلاند
• Belarusian: Сіленд (Siljend)
• Bengali: সায়রিস্তান (śaẏôriśtan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (officially) 西兰公国 (Xīlán gōngguó)

• Esperanto: Selando
• French: Sealand (fr), (officially) principauté de Sealand (fr)
• German: Seeland (de) n, Fürstentum Seeland n
• Japanese: シーランド (Shīrando), (officially) シーランド公国 (Shīrando kōkoku)
• Korean: 실랜드 (Sillaendeu), (officially) 실랜드 공국 (Sillaendeu gongguk)
• Marathi: सीलँड (sīlĕṇḍa)
• Portuguese: Sealand f
• Russian: Си́ленд (ru) m (Sílend)
• Spanish: Sealand, (officially) Principado de Sealand

Anagrams

• denasal

Portuguese

Proper noun

Sealand f

1. Sealand (a micronation in the English Channel)