city-state vs state

state vs city-state

city-state and state both are nouns.

city-state is not a verb while state is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
city-state	Yes	No	No	No
state	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, state is a hypernym of city-state; that is, state is a word with a broader meaning than city-state:

city-state: a state consisting of a sovereign city
state: a politically organized body of people under a single government

Other hypernyms of city-state include body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica.

city-state (noun)	state (noun)
a state consisting of a sovereign city	the way something is with respect to its main attributes
	a politically organized body of people under a single government
	the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
	the territory occupied by a nation
	the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
	a state of depression or agitation
	(chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)

city-state (verb)	state (verb)
	express in words
	put before
	indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.

Difference between city-state and state

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