English Explanatory Dictionary

corpus separatum

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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. A proposed internationally-governed area encompassing the city of Jerusalem in the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.

Word forms

corpus separatum

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin.

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