Sealand en · PROPN
Etymology
From sea + -land. In sense 3, calqued from Old Babylonian Akkadian 𒆳 𒀀𒀊𒁀 (Sumerogram KUR A.AB.BA, Akkadian: māt tâmti).
Meanings
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A self-proclaimed micronation (full name: the Principality of Sealand) whose capital is HM Fort Roughs, a former British sea fort.
A crumb of real estate off the English coast that declared its independence in 1967, Sealand has a full-time population of… one.
2024 August 4, Jon Wertheim, “Sealand, world's smallest state, has 1 permanent resident and its own royal family”, in CBS News:
- 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.
- 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.
Deriveds
Translations (45)
es Sealand (the Principality of Sealand) · mzn سیلند (the Principality of Sealand) · hy Սիլենդ (the Principality of Sealand) · ar سيلاند (the Principality of Sealand) · uk Сіландія (the Principality of Sealand) · id Sealandia (the Principality of Sealand) · ba Силенд (the Principality of Sealand) · bg Сийланд (the Principality of Sealand) · fa سیلند (the Principality of Sealand) · sq Silandës (the Principality of Sealand) · uk Князівство Сіландія (the Principality of Sealand) · de Fürstentum Seeland (the Principality of Sealand) · yue 西崙公國 /西仑公国 (the Principality of Sealand) · be Сіленд (the Principality of Sealand) · fy Seelân (the Principality of Sealand) · eo Selando (the Principality of Sealand) · lo ຊີແລນ (the Principality of Sealand) · he סילנד (the Principality of Sealand) · ko 시랜드 (the Principality of Sealand) · ar امارة سيلاند (the Principality of Sealand) · ru Кня́жество Си́ленд (the Principality of Sealand) · es Principado de Sealand (the Principality of Sealand) · ckb سیلاند (the Principality of Sealand) · pt Sealand (the Principality of Sealand) · hyw Սիլէնտ (the Principality of Sealand) · th ซีแลนด์ (the Principality of Sealand) · ja シーランド (the Principality of Sealand) · ta சீலாந்து (the Principality of Sealand) · cmn 西蘭公國 /西兰公国 (the Principality of Sealand) · my ဆီလန်နိုင်ငံ (the Principality of Sealand) · fr principauté de Sealand (the Principality of Sealand) · cmn 西蘭 /西兰 (the Principality of Sealand) · ko 시랜드 공국 (the Principality of Sealand) · fr Sealand (the Principality of Sealand) · ce Силенд (the Principality of Sealand) · ru Си́ленд (the Principality of Sealand) · de Seeland (the Principality of Sealand) · ka სილენდი (the Principality of Sealand) · lt Sylandas (the Principality of Sealand) · hi सीलैंड (the Principality of Sealand) · cv Силэнд (the Principality of Sealand) · lv Sīlenda (the Principality of Sealand) · ja シーランド公国 (the Principality of Sealand) · bn সায়রিস্তান (the Principality of Sealand) · mr सीलँड (the Principality of Sealand)