Nationname

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  A surname.

nationnoun詞源 1/ˈneɪʃən/

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  A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.

  • The Roma are a nation without a country.
  • pre-Columbian nations
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  informalA historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.

  • Near-synonym: tribe
  • the Dallas Cowboys nation
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  A sovereign state; (loosely, metonymic, proscribed) a country.

  • Though legally single nations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups.
  • It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […] perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
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  historicalAn association of students based on the birthplace or ethnicity of its members.

  • Once widespread across Europe in medieval times, nations are now largely restricted to the ancient universities of Sweden and Finland.
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  obsoleteA great number; a great deal.

  • […]and what a nation of herbs he had procured to mollify her humours, &c. &c.[…]
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  In North America, an Indigenous people with federal and/or state recognition as such and (often also) their federally recognized territory.

  • The Choctaw Nation is the third-largest federally recognized tribe in the United States and the second-largest Indian reservation in area.
  • The term Navajo Nation refers both to the people and to their territory.

nationnoun詞源 2/ˈneɪʃən/

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  rareDamnation.

  • ... what the nation's the matter of that boy now ? If he's got them highsterics ag'in , I'll blister him from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet , sure as he's a - livin ' . " The doctor took up his hat and started out to meet[…]
  • O nation!.. if I were a man, […]

nationadv詞源 2/ˈneɪʃən/

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  raredialectalExtremely, very.

  • “Looky here, Bilgewater,” he says, “I’m nation sorry for you, but you ain’t the only person that’s had troubles like that.”
  • "Beleddy, Mester, yo're a dab hand at axing questions, at ony rate! One has to look back a 'nation long way into one's books to find what yo I axen after.

nationadj詞源 2/ˈneɪʃən/

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  raredialectalAn intensifier; extreme, great.

  • ... a nation deal o' trouble to captivate him.
  • ... a nation lot of hunters assembled, for it war known there war plenty of game ...