• enPR:nā'shən,IPA^(key):/ˈneɪʃən/

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• Rhymes:-eɪʃən

FromMiddle Englishnacioun,nacion, fromOld Frenchnacion, fromLatinnātiōnem, accusative ofnātiō(“nation”). Displaced nativeOld Englishþēod.

nation (pluralnations)

2. (collective) A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a commonlanguage,territory, economic life,ethnicity and/orpsychological make-up manifested in a commonculture.

   Coordinate term:(sometimes synonymous)people

   The Roma are anation without a country.

   pre-Columbiannations

   • 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London:[…]Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Psalms22:27:

     All the ends of the woꝛld ſhall remember, and turne vnto theLord: and all the kinreds of thenations ſhall woꝛſhip befoꝛe thee.

   1. (by extension,informal, oftenhumorous) A community united by some trait (especially aninterest) but not historically constituted.

      the Dallas Cowboysnation

      • 2016 May 5, Johansson Anna, “5 Marketing Tips for Reaching the DIY Generation”, inEntrepreneur‎^[1], retrieved2023-12-21:

        Did Pinterest create a culture of do-it-yourselfers, or did the DIYnation create Pinterest? The answer may not be certain, but we do know that a lot of customers love to do things on their own.

3. (internationallaw,metonymic) Asovereignstate;(loosely,metonymic,proscribed) acountry.

   Though legally singlenations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups.

   • 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, inThe Guardian Weekly‎^[2], volume188, number26, page36:

     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 separatenation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.

   • 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 1:18 from the start, inAnti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron‎^[3], archived fromthe original on29 November 2024:

     By the start of the 19th century, Europe was neckdeep in the Napoleonic Wars, which, at various times, amounted to the British Empire against Europe, and, at others, involved Britain subsidising variousnations, such as Austria and Prussia, against Napoleon.

4. (chieflyhistorical) An association ofstudentsbased on thebirthplace orethnicity of itsmembers.

   Synonym:student nation

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

5. (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, published1772,page57:

     […]and what anation of herbs he had procured to mollify her humours, &c. &c.[…]

6. In North America, an Indigenouspeople and their federally recognized territory.

   The ChoctawNation is the third-largest federally recognized tribe in the United States and the second-largest Indian reservation in area.

• (British) Following the establishment of the Scottish and Welshparliaments,England,Scotland andWales are normally considered distinct nations. Application of the termnation to the United Kingdom as a whole isdeprecated in most style guides, including the BBC, most newspapers and in UK Government publications.Northern Ireland, being of less clear legal status, generally remains aprovince.

Short fordamnation ortarnation.

• 'nation

nation

1. (rare)Damnation.(Can we add anexample for this sense?)

nation

1. (rare,dialectal)Extremely,very.
   • 1884 December 10,Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XIX, inThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London:Chatto & Windus, […],→OCLC,page186:

     “Looky here, Bilgewater,” he says, “I’mnation sorry for you, but you ain’t the only person that’s had troubles like that.”

• “Notable and Quotable”, inMerriam Webster Online Newsletter‎^[4], 2005 November, archived fromthe original on14 March 2006.

• Tonian,anoint

FromLatinnātiō(“birth, people”), derived from the verbnāscor(“to be born”).

• IPA^(key):[naˈɕoˀn]

nation c (singular definitenationen,plural indefinitenationer)

1. anation, a people with a common identity, united in history, culture or language
2. anation, a country that is a politically independent unity

• “nation” inDen Danske Ordbog

Inherited fromMiddle Frenchnation, fromOld Frenchnacion, borrowed fromLatinnātiōnem.

• IPA^(key):/na.sjɔ̃/

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• Rhymes:-ɔ̃

nation f (pluralnations)

1. nation

• “nation”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

• tonnai

FromOld Frenchnacion.

nation f (pluralnations)

1. nation

• French:nation

• IPA^(key):/natˈɧuːn/

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nation c

1. anation, acountry, astate
2. anation, apeople

   tala tillnationen

   address thenation

3. aunion orfraternity ofstudents from the sameprovince

• Förenta nationerna
• national-
• nationaldag
• nationalism
• nationalist
• nationalitet
• nationell
• Nationernas förbund
• nationshus
• nationsliv
• studentnation

• nation inSvensk ordbok (SO)
• nation inSvenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• nation inSvenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)