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Statehood is the official condition of being a fully recognized state — either a U.S. state that is a full member of the country (like when Hawaii gained statehood in 1959), or a country recognized as an independent nation by others. 'Achieving statehood' or 'seeking statehood' are common phrases, mostly seen in and history, like discussions about Puerto Rico or Palestine.
州（或國家）的地位、建州／建國資格
組成state + -hood (a suffix meaning 'the condition of being', as in 'childhood' or 'neighborhood').
同家族的字
- childhoodshares the -hood ending, meaning a condition or period of being something
- neighborhoodshares the -hood ending
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
statehoodnoun/ˈsteɪthʊd/
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The property of being a state, an autonomous subdivision of a federal country.
- Alaska didn't attain statehood until 1959, when it became the 49th state of the United States.
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The condition of being a country.
- Medvedev cited these supposed “Western analysts” in order to propagate Russia’s colonial fantasy: envisioning Ukraine’s territory reduced to just the Kyiv region, while the remainder of Ukraine would be divided among Russia, Poland, Romania, and Hungary. Such a narrative recalls Putin’s February 2022 speech questioning Ukraine’s statehood and accompanies intensifying Russian calls to expand its “special military operation” to realize its imperial map.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。