macronation

English

Etymology

From macro- +‎ nation.

Noun

macronation (plural macronations)

1. (micronationalism) An internationally recognized country, as opposed to a micronation.
   • 2018, Simon Sellars, Applied Ballardianism: Memoir from a Parallel Universe, page 242:

     The only alternative for micronations, then, as the existence of Sealand proves, is to hope for survival as a harmless tourist oddity, tolerated by the surrounding macronations and defanged of oppositional intent.

2. A large or powerful nation.
   • 2006, Ella Shohat, Taboo Memories, Diasporic Voices, page 46:

     […] where the microindividual is doubled by the macronation, and the personal and the political, the private and the historical, are inextricably linked.

   • 2007, David J. C. Shearman, The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy, page 99:

     Excluding microstates with a population of less than one million people there are 29 democratic macronations.

Related terms

• macronational
• macronationally

Anagrams

• non-aromatic, nonaromatic