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nation| The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 | | nation | | Nation \Na"tion\, n. [F. nation, L. natio nation, race, orig., a
being born, fr. natus, p. p. of nasci, to be born, for
gnatus, gnasci, from the same root as E. kin. [root]44. See
{Kin} kindred, and cf. {Cognate}, {Natal}, {Native}.]
1. (Ethnol.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth,
distinguished from the rest by common descent, language,
or institutions; a race; a stock.
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All nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues.
--Rev. vii. 9.
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2. The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an
independent government of their own.
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A nation is the unity of a people. --Coleridge.
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Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a
nation. --F. S. Key.
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3. Family; lineage. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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4.
(a) One of the divisions of university students in a
classification according to nativity, formerly common
in Europe.
(b) (Scotch Universities) One of the four divisions (named
from the parts of Scotland) in which students were
classified according to their nativity.
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5. A great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a
nation of herbs. --Sterne.
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{Five nations}. See under {Five}.
{Law of nations}. See {International law}, under
{International}, and {Law}.
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Syn: people; race. See {People}.
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| Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 | | nation | | 118 Moby Thesaurus words for "nation":
Everyman, John Doe, Public, ally, animal kingdom, archduchy,
archdukedom, blood, body politic, breed, brood, buffer state,
captive nation, chieftaincy, chieftainry, citizenry, city-state,
clan, class, colony, common man, commonweal, commonwealth,
community, community at large, constituency, country, county,
cultural community, culture, deme, domain, dominion, duchy,
dukedom, dwellers, earldom, empery, empire, estate, ethnic group,
everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, family, folk, folks,
free city, general public, gens, gentry, grand duchy, habitancy,
house, inhabitants, kind, kingdom, land, line, lineage,
linguistic community, mandant, mandate, mandated territory,
mandatee, mandatory, matriclan, men, nationality, order, patriclan,
people, people at large, people in general, persons, phratry,
phyle, plant kingdom, polis, polity, populace, population,
possession, power, principality, principate, protectorate,
province, public, puppet government, puppet regime, race, realm,
republic, satellite, seneschalty, sept, settlement, society,
sovereign nation, species, speech community, state, stem, stirps,
stock, strain, sultanate, superpower, territory, toparchia,
toparchy, totem, tribe, whole people, world, you and me
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| WordNet (r) 2.0 | | nation | | nation
n 1: a politically organized body of people under a single
government; "the state has elected a new president";
"African nations"; "students who had come to the
nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer";
"an industrialized land" [syn: {state}, {country}, {land},
{commonwealth}, {res publica}, {body politic}]
2: the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement
that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced
to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him" [syn: {land},
{country}, {a people}]
3: a federation of tribes (especially native American tribes);
"the Shawnee nation"
4: United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and
destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)
[syn: {Carry Nation}, {Carry Amelia Moore Nation}]
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A relatively large group of people organized under a single, usually independent government; a country.
The territory occupied by such a group of people: All across the nation, people are voting their representatives out.
The government of a sovereign state.
A people who share common customs, origins, history, and frequently language; a nationality: "Historically the Ukrainians are an ancient nation which has persisted and survived through terrible calamity” ( Robert Conquest).
A federation or tribe, especially one composed of Native Americans.
The territory occupied by such a federation or tribe.
rogue nation
suzerain
spanish people
french people
french
city-state
renegade state
tamil eelam
Great Power
city state
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