principality
prin si pa li tee
- n territory ruled by a prince
- Germany is vilifying the tiny principality for letting tax evaders hide their cash there, but defiant locals are standing firm.
- Contradicting Lee became synonymous with being disloyal to Singapore, so hermetic was the identification between man and principality.
- Snow-bearded, 84-year-old Prince Franz Paul I, ruler of the 65-square-mile principality of Liechtenstein, which snuggles up in the central Alps between Switzerland and Greater .