NATION
\nˈe͡ɪʃən], \nˈeɪʃən], \n_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of NATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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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"
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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"
By Princeton University
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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"
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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"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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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The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own.
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Family; lineage.
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One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe.
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One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity.
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A great number; a great deal; - by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs.
By Oddity Software
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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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The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own.
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Family; lineage.
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One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe.
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One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity.
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A great number; a great deal; - by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs.
By Noah Webster.
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Those born of the same stock: the people inhabiting the same country, or under the same government: a race: a great number.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A body of people inhabiting the same country; people of the same blood, and sometimes language; a great number.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.