Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A part of a country that is isolated from the main part and is surrounded by foreign territory.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A part of a country, province, or the like which is disjoined from the main part.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Recent. A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
portion of acountry 'sterritory notconnected to themain part - noun medicine, rare A
detached part of anorgan , as of the pancreas, thyroid, or other gland.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Azerbaijan, with respect to its landlocked exclave of Nakhichevan.
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As an alternative, Syria has also tried to fly arms in from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad in Eastern Europe, but those flights have been blocked by neighboring Lithuania.
New Bid to Stifle Iran Aid to Syria Jay Solomon 2012
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Will this lead the Paris-based leadership of the "Republic of Cabinda" who seek to create an independent state in the Angolan exclave of Cabinda once known as the Portuguese Congo wedged in between Congo-Brazzaville and Congo-Kinshasa?
Derek Flood: Territorial Triumph and Geopolitical Pitfalls in South Sudan Derek Flood 2011
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What if a Jewish homeland had been created in the former German territory in and around Königsberg rather than it having been turned into a Russian exclave?
Matthew Yglesias » Goldberg: The Middle East Is Complicated and It’s All the Arabs’ Fault 2010
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The Polish part is finally and truly Polish; the sliver of East Prussia given to the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic is now a part of independent Lithuania; the rest of the old Soviet slice is a seedy Russian exclave surrounded by the European Union.
Eastern Reproaches Andrew Stuttaford 2011
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Will this lead the Paris-based leadership of the "Republic of Cabinda" who seek to create an independent state in the Angolan exclave of Cabinda once known as the Portuguese Congo wedged in between Congo-Brazzaville and Congo-Kinshasa?
Derek Flood: Territorial Triumph and Geopolitical Pitfalls in South Sudan Derek Flood 2011
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Timor-Leste is one of the smallest countries in the world, consisting of the eastern half of the island of Timor western half belongs to Indonesia, and the islands of Atauro and Jaco, and the exclave of Oecusse.
Howard Steven Friedman: Timor-Leste Beauty Howard Steven Friedman 2011
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Timor-Leste is one of the smallest countries in the world, consisting of the eastern half of the island of Timor western half belongs to Indonesia, and the islands of Atauro and Jaco, and the exclave of Oecusse.
Howard Steven Friedman: Timor-Leste Beauty Howard Steven Friedman 2011
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Malvolio — hypertechnically, it is an exclave of New York, in that it is controlled by New York but within the legal boundaries of Jersey City, New Jersey.
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What if a Jewish homeland had been created in the former German territory in and around Königsberg rather than it having been turned into a Russian exclave?
Matthew Yglesias » Goldberg: The Middle East Is Complicated and It’s All the Arabs’ Fault 2010
reesetee commented on the word exclave
From OED: "A portion of territory separated from the country to which it politically belongs and entirely surrounded by alien dominions: seen from the viewpoint of the 'home' country (as opp. to an enclave, the same portion of territory as viewed by the surrounding dominions)."
October 8, 2008
bilby commented on the word exclave
This word aptly describes the status of Oecussi vis-a-vis East Timor. I've generally heard it referred to as an enclave even by people who should know better. The distinction and its facility of switching points of view strikes me as being quite useful.
October 9, 2008
rolig commented on the word exclave
Alaska is an exclave.
October 9, 2008
qms commented on the word exclave
It’s either foolhardy or brave
To capture the sense of enclave
While leaving in place
The lexical space
To service its shadow, exclave.
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclave_and_exclave
May 27, 2018