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NATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The people who live in a nation or country
Example:
the whole country worshipped him
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("nation" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Meronyms (members of "nation"):
national; subject (a person who owes allegiance to that nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nation"):
Dutch; Dutch people (the people of the Netherlands)
British; British people; Brits (the people of Great Britain)
English; English people (the people of England)
Irish; Irish people (people of Ireland or of Irish extraction)
French; French people (the people of France)
Spanish; Spanish people (the people of Spain)
Swiss; Swiss people (the natives or inhabitants of Switzerland)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A politically organized body of people under a single government
Example:
an industrialized land
Synonyms:
body politic; commonwealth; country; land; nation; res publica; state
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("nation" is a kind of...):
political entity; political unit (a unit with political responsibilities)
Meronyms (parts of "nation"):
estate; estate of the realm; the three estates (a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nation"):
ally (a friendly nation)
city-state; city state (a state consisting of a sovereign city)
great power; major power; power; superpower; world power (a state powerful enough to influence events throughout the world)
sea power (a nation that possesses formidable naval strength)
suzerain (a state exercising a degree of dominion over a dependent state especially in its foreign affairs)
renegade state; rogue nation; rogue state (a state that does not respect other states in its international actions)
Reich (the German state)
foreign country (any state of which one is not a citizen)
Dominion (one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth)
developing country (a country that is poor and whose citizens are mostly agricultural workers but that wants to become more advanced socially and economically)
commonwealth country (any of the countries in the British Commonwealth)
Instance hyponyms:
Eelam; Tamil Eelam (the independent state that the Tamil Tigers have fought for)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)
Example:
the Shawnee nation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("nation" is a kind of...):
confederacy; confederation; federation (a union of political organizations)
Domain region:
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nation"):
federation of tribes; tribe (a federation (as of American Indians))
Sense 4
Meaning:
United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)
Synonyms:
Carry Amelia Moore Nation; Carry Nation; Nation
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
dry; prohibitionist (a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages)
Context examples:
The night parrot is sacred to First Nation peoples, and experts say Australia now has a second chance to save a bird that was once thought to have died out.
(Aboriginal Rangers Find Evidence of One of Australia’s Rarest Birds, VOA)
The energetic particles released by the test likely followed Earth’s magnetic field lines to the Polynesian island nation, inducing the aurora.
(Space Weather Events Linked to Human Activity, NASA)
He could not tell what I meant by secrets of state, where an enemy, or some rival nation, were not in the case.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
System of classification based on the nation in which an individual was exposed to a disease, regardless of the nation in which he/she currently resides.
(Country of Potential Disease Exposure, NCI Thesaurus)
The Board's most distinctive contribution, however, will be to render advice to the Nation in the area of policy and make recommendations to advance the Nation's effort against cancer.
(National Cancer Policy Board, NCI Thesaurus)
The beliefs, values, and behaviors that are shared within a group, such as a religious group or a nation.
(Culture, NCI Dictionary)
I really cannot be plaguing myself for ever with all the new poems and states of the nation that come out.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
This is because most fish caught in developing countries is either sent abroad directly or processed and sold to richer nations.
(Fairer fish trade could fix nutrient deficiencies in coastal countries, SciDev.Net)
F. ulcerans causes ulcers in humans located in tropical nations however, this bacteria's natural habitat is unknown.
(Fusobacterium ulcerans, NCI Thesaurus)
But one of the study’s authors, Richard Fuller, said pollution is tied to slow economic development in wealthy and poor nations.
(Pollution is the World’s No. 1 Killer, VOA)
