statehood

English

Etymology

From state +‎ -hood.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪthʊd/

Noun

statehood (countable and uncountable, plural statehoods)

1. The property of being a state.

   Alaska didn't attain statehood until 1959, when it became the 49th state of the United States.

2. The condition of being a country.
   • 2022 August 24, “Russia’s War on Ukraine: Six Months of Lies, Implemented”, in United States Department of State‎^[1], archived from the original on 24 August 2022‎^[2]:

     Medvedev cited these supposed “Western analysts” in order to propagate Russia’s colonial fantasy: envisioning Ukraine’s territory reduced to just the Kyiv region, while the remainder of Ukraine would be divided among Russia, Poland, Romania, and Hungary. Such a narrative recalls Putin’s February 2022 speech questioning Ukraine’s statehood and accompanies intensifying Russian calls to expand its “special military operation” to realize its imperial map.

Translations

property of being a state

• Armenian: պետականություն (hy) (petakanutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: dövlətçilik
• Catalan: condició d'estat f
• Czech: státnost (cs) f, suverenita (cs) f
• Finnish: osavaltioasema, osavaltion asema (of a political division of a federation), valtion asema (of an independent nation)
• German: Staatlichkeit (de) f
• Hungarian: államiság (hu)
• Indonesian: kehidupan bernegara
• Macedonian: др́жавност f (dŕžavnost)
• Malay: taraf negara
• Polish: państwowość (pl) f
• Russian: госуда́рственность (ru) f (gosudárstvennostʹ) (of an independent nation)
• Spanish: condición de estado f
• Ukrainian: держа́вність f (deržávnistʹ) (of an independent nation)