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exclave

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English

Etymology

From ex- + (en)clave.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɛkskleɪv/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

exclave (plural exclaves)

  1. A portion of a country's territory not connected to the main part.
    Coordinate terms: enclave, pene-enclave, pene-exclave
    Alaska and Kaliningrad are both examples of exclaves.
    • 2006 March 24, r, “World's smallest enclave?”, in Micro-Nations.com (MNO), archived from the original on 10 August 2008:
      While there has never been a macronational bedroom nation, some exclaves have been barely larger.
    • 2022 March 10, Daniel Howden, “Europe has rediscovered compassion for refugees – but only if they’re white”, in The Guardian:
      Spain’s Melilla, one of two small exclaves of EU land on the African continent, has long been the strongest distillation of fortress Europe.
    • 2022 August 24, Ruth Cassidy, “Crusader Kings 3 update looks to tone-down the 'border gore' of endless conquest”, in PC Gamer, archived from the original on 3 October 2022:
      France, but the shape of a giraffe, with a number of its counties belonging to Wales, with an odd little exclave far up North in Norway? That's border gore.
  2. (medicine, rare) A detached part of an organ, as of the pancreas, thyroid (accessory thyroids), or other gland.

Translations

Verb

exclave (third-person singular simple present exclaves, present participle exclaving, simple past and past participle exclaved) (transitive)

  1. To separate a region in a way that turns it into an exclave.
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Ligurian

Noun

exclave m (please provide plural)

  1. exclave

Portuguese

Etymology

From ex- + (en)clave.

Pronunciation

 
 

  • Rhymes: -avi, -avɨ
  • Hyphenation: ex‧cla‧ve

Noun

exclave m (plural exclaves)

  1. (geography) exclave (portion of a country's territory not connected to the main part)
    Coordinate term: enclave
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