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nation

'neiʃәn11 senses · 70 ms
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noun/ˈneɪʃən/
  1. 1

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

    • The Roma are a nation without a country.
    • pre-Columbian nations
  2. 2

    A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common economic life, ethnicity, language, religion, and/or territory, and manifested in a common culture.; A community united by some trait (especially an interest) but not historically constituted.broadlycollectivehumorous

    • Near-synonym: tribe
    • the Dallas Cowboys nation
  3. 3

    A sovereign state; (loosely, metonymic, proscribed) a country.metonymically

    • Though legally single nations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups.
  4. 4

    An association of students based on the birthplace or ethnicity of its members.historical

    • Once widespread across Europe in medieval times, nations are now largely restricted to the ancient universities of Sweden and Finland.
  5. 5

    A great number; a great deal.obsolete

    • […]and what a nation of herbs he had procured to mollify her humours, &c. &c.[…]
  6. 6

    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.
noun/ˈneɪʃən/
  1. 1

    Damnation.rare

    • O nation!.. if I were a man, […]
adv/ˈneɪʃən/
  1. 1

    Extremely, very.dialectalrare

    • “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.
adj/ˈneɪʃən/
  1. 1

    An intensifier; extreme, great.dialectalrare

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

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