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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

corpus separatum en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A city or region which is given a special legal and political status different from its environment, but which falls short of being sovereign, or an independent city state.
  2. (historical, uncountable) A city or region which is given a special legal and political status different from its environment, but which falls short of being sovereign, or an independent city state. ▸ A proposed internationally-governed area encompassing the city of Jerusalem in the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.