Etimology
From Middle English nacioun, nacion, from Old French nacion, from Latin nātiōnem, accusative of nātiō (“nation”). Displaced native Old English þēod.
noun
nation (plural nations)
(collective) A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
(international law, metonymically) A sovereign state; (loosely, metonymically, proscribed) a country.
(chiefly historical) An association of students based on the birthplace or ethnicity of its members.
(obsolete) A great number; a great deal.
In North America, an Indigenous people and their federally recognized territory.
Examples
Coordinate term: people
The Roma are a nation without a country.
pre-Columbian nations
All the ends of the woꝛld ſhall remember, and turne vnto the Lord: and all the kinreds of the nations ſhall woꝛſhip befoꝛe thee.
the Dallas Cowboys nation
Did Pinterest create a culture of do-it-yourselfers, or did the DIY nation create Pinterest? The answer may not be certain, but we do know that a lot of customers love to do things on their own.
Though legally single nations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups.
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 separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
Synonym: student nation
Once widespread across Europe in medieval times, nations are now largely restricted to the ancient universities of Sweden and Finland.
[…] and what a nation of herbs he had procured to mollify her humours, &c. &c. […]
The Choctaw Nation is the third-largest federally recognized tribe in the United States and the second-largest Indian reservation in area.
Related words
related terms
antenatal
innate
nascent
natal
native
nativism
nativity
nativization
natural
naturalism
nature
naturism
prenatal
Etimology
Probably short for damnation.
noun
nation
(rare) Damnation.
adverb
nation
(rare, dialectal) Extremely, very.
Examples
“Looky here, Bilgewater,” he says, “I’m nation sorry for you, but you ain’t the only person that’s had troubles like that.”