nation
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English nacioun, nacion, from Old French nacion, from Latin nātiōnem, accusative of nātiō (“nation”). Displaced native Old English þēod.
Noun
[edit]nation (plural nations)
- (collective) 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.
- Coordinate term: (sometimes synonymous) people
- The Roma are a nation without a country.
- pre-Columbian nations
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 22:27:
- All the ends of the woꝛld ſhall remember, and turne vnto the Lord: and all the kinreds of the nations ſhall woꝛſhip befoꝛe thee.
- (by extension, informal, often humorous) A community united by some trait (especially an interest) but not historically constituted.
- the Dallas Cowboys nation
- 2016 May 5, Johansson Anna, “5 Marketing Tips for Reaching the DIY Generation”, in Entrepreneur[1], retrieved 2023-12-21:
- Did Pinterest create a culture of do-it-yourselfers, or did the DIY nation create Pinterest? The answer may not be certain, but we do know that a lot of customers love to do things on their own.
- (international law, metonymically) A sovereign state; (loosely, metonymically, proscribed) a country.
- Though legally single nations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups.
- 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly[2], volume 188, number 26, page 36:
- 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.
- (chiefly historical) An association of students based on the birthplace or ethnicity of its members.
- Synonym: student nation
- Once widespread across Europe in medieval times, nations are now largely restricted to the ancient universities of Sweden and Finland.
- (obsolete) A great number; a great deal.
- 1762, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, new edition, volume V, Altenburgh: G. E. Richter, published 1772, page 57:
- […] and what a nation of herbs he had procured to mollify her humours, &c. &c. […]
- In North America, an Indigenous people and 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.
Usage notes
[edit]- (British) Following the establishment of the Scottish and Welsh parliaments, England, Scotland and Wales are normally considered distinct nations. Application of the term nation to the United Kingdom as a whole is deprecated in most style guides, including the BBC, most newspapers and in UK Government publications. Northern Ireland, being of less clear legal status, generally remains a province.
Derived terms
[edit]Terms derived from nation
- aspirant nation
- bedroom nation
- bug nation
- captive nation
- cybernation
- father of the nation
- First Nations
- Ford Nation
- Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
- home nation
- independent mini-nation
- indispensable nation
- internation
- macronation
- micronation
- mini-nation
- model nation
- most favored nation
- most favoured nation
- mother of the nation
- multination
- natiolect
- national
- nation-builder
- nation-building
- nationful
- nationhood
- nationism
- nationist
- nationless
- nationlike
- Nation of Islam
- nation of laws
- nationship
- nation-state
- nation state
- nationwide
- nation wrecker
- Navajo Nation
- Neutral Nation
- new nation project
- one nation
- one-nation conservatism
- one-nation conservative
- plurination
- project nation
- proposition nation
- pseudo-nation
- pseudonation
- Six Nations of the Grand River
- space nation
- State of the Nation
- student nation
- subnation
- supernation
- Test nation
- the race that stops a nation
- United Nations
Related terms
[edit]Terms etymologically related to nation
Translations
[edit]community of people
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sovereign state
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association of students
See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Probably short for damnation.
Noun
[edit]nation
Adverb
[edit]nation
- (rare, dialectal) Extremely, very.
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XIX, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 186:
- “Looky here, Bilgewater,” he says, “I’m nation sorry for you, but you ain’t the only person that’s had troubles like that.”
References
[edit]- “Notable and Quotable”, in Merriam Webster Online Newsletter[3], 2005 November, archived from the original on 14 March 2006.
Anagrams
[edit]Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin nātiō (“birth, people”), derived from the verb nāscor (“to be born”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nation c (singular definite nationen, plural indefinite nationer)
- a nation, a people with a common identity, united in history, culture or language
- a nation, a country that is a politically independent unity
Declension
[edit]Declension of nation
| common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | nation | nationen | nationer | nationerne |
| genitive | nations | nationens | nationers | nationernes |
References
[edit]- “nation” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French nation, from Old French nacion, borrowed from Latin nātiōnem.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nation f (plural nations)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “nation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French nacion.
Noun
[edit]nation f (plural nations)
Descendants
[edit]- French: nation
Swedish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nation c
- a nation, a country, a state
- a nation, a people
- tala till nationen
- address the nation
- a union or fraternity of students from the same province
Declension
[edit]Declension of nation
Related terms
[edit]- Förenta nationerna
- national-
- nationaldag
- nationalism
- nationalist
- nationalitet
- nationell
- Nationernas förbund
- nationshus
- nationsliv
- studentnation
References
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