noun 1) народ, нация; народность 2) нация, государство, страна; peace-loving nations - миролюбивые страны; most favoured nation comm. - наиболее благоприятствуемая нация 3) (the nation) amer. наша страна, США (тж. this nation); американцы 4) (the nations) pl.; bibl. язычники, не евреи 5) hist. землячество (в средневековом университете) Syn: see folk ...
1. народ, нация; народность 2. (the nation) ам. американцы, граждане США 3. страна, государство, нация peace-loving nations —- миролюбивые страны smaller nations —- малые державы most favoured nation —- страна, пользующаяся статусом наибольшего благоприятствия law of nations —- международное право the biggest port in the nation —- крупнейший порт страны across the nation —- по всей стране across the nation labour demanded... —- рабочие всей страны требовали... 4. (the nation, this nation) ам. наша страна, США the nation's economically distressed areas —- районы США, терпящие экономическое бедствие Democratic victory in the nation —- победа демократов на президентских выборах в США 5. (the nations) pl. народы (мира) 6. (the nations) библ. язычники (о неевреях) 7. (об американских индейцах) племя или группа племен Five Nations —- конфедерация пяти (ирокезских) племен Indians of several nations —- индейцы нескольких племен 8. территория индейского племени one of the towns in the Cherokee nation —- один из городов на территории племени чероки 9. уст. группа, слой a nation of newspaper readers —- люди, читающие газеты; читающий народ 10. ист. землячество (в средневековом университете) Id: nation of shopkeepers —- нация лавочников (об англичанах) 11. эвф. вм. damnation ...
особо в США "племя" ("народ") Индейское племя или союз племен. Ср. Six Nations NATION (The Nation) "Нейшн" Еженедельный общеполитический журнал либерального направления. Издается в Нью-Йорке. Основан в 1865 Э. Годкином Godkin, Edwin Lawrence и считается влиятельным социально-политическим изданием, рассчитанным на интеллигенцию. Тираж 44 тыс. экз. ...
n. 1 a community of people of mainly common descent, history, language, etc., forming a State or inhabiting a territory. 2 a tribe or confederation of tribes of N. American Indians. Phrases and idioms law of nations Law international law. Derivatives nationhood n. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L natio -onis f. nasci nat- be born ...
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noun Etymology: Middle English nacioun, from Anglo-French naciun, from Latin ~-, natio birth, race, ~, from nasci to be born; akin to Latin gignere to beget — more at kin Date: 14th century 1. a. (1) ~ality 5a (2) a politically organized ~ality (3) a non-Jewish ~ality why do the ~s conspire — Psalms 2:1 (Revised Standard Version) b. a community of people composed of one or more ~alities and possessing a more or less defined territory and government c. a territorial division containing a body of people of one or more ~alities and usually characterized by relatively large size and independent status 2. archaic group, aggregation 3. a tribe or federation of tribes (as of American Indians) NATION biographical name Carry Amelia 1846-1911 nee Moore American temperance agitator ...
(nations) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. A nation is an individual country considered together with its social and political structures. Such policies would require unprecedented cooperation between nations... The Arab nations agreed to meet in Baghdad. N-COUNT 2. The nation is sometimes used to refer to all the people who live in a particular country. (JOURNALISM) It was a story that touched the nation’s heart. N-SING ...
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~ n 1 a country, considered especially in relation to its people and its social or economic structure (the President's radio broadcast to the nation | the world's leading industrial nations) 2 a large group of people of the same race and language (the Cherokee nation) (- see race1) ...
- 13c., from O.Fr. nacion, from L. nationem (nom. natio) "nation, stock, race," also "that which has been born," from nasci "be born." Political sense has gradually taken over from meaning "common ancestry." Nationalism is first attested 1836 as "the doctrine of divine election of nations;" 1844 in meaning "devotion to one's nation;" earliest in an Irish context. ...