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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