(きょうだいこく)

きょうだいこく
noun
powerful nation; great power
1. powerful nation; great power; major power
A country with significant military, economic, and political influence in international affairs.
アメリカは世界(せかい)強大国(きょうだいこく)だ。
America is a world power.
強大国(きょうだいこく)(あいだ)緊張(きんちょう)(たか)まっている。
Tensions are rising among the great powers.
歴史的(れきしてき)()ると、強大国(きょうだいこく)興亡(こうぼう)国際秩序(こくさいちつじょ)変化(へんか)密接(みっせつ)(むす)びついている。
Historically, the rise and fall of great powers is closely tied to changes in the international order.

A compound of 強大(きょうだい) (mighty, powerful) and (こく) (country, nation). Used in political science, international relations, and news reporting to describe countries with outsized global influence.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS:

  • 軍事(ぐんじ)強大国(きょうだいこく): military superpower
  • 経済(けいざい)強大国(きょうだいこく): economic powerhouse
  • 強大国(きょうだいこく)覇権(はけん): hegemony of great powers
  • 強大国(きょうだいこく)台頭(たいとう): rise of a great power

SIMILAR WORDS:

  • 大国(たいこく): great power, major nation — the most common and neutral term
  • 超大国(ちょうたいこく): superpower — specifically for nations at the top of global power
  • 列強(れっきょう): the great powers — historically, the group of dominant colonial/imperial nations