Nation

Noun

 * 1) A group of people sharing aspects of language, culture and/or ethnicity.
 * The Roma are a nation without a country.
 * 1) A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, and psychological make-up manifested in a common culture
 * The Kurdish people constitute a nation in the Middle East
 * 1)  (international law) A sovereign state.
 * Though legally single nations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups.

Derived terms

 * nation building
 * nation-state
 * United Nations
 * First Nations

Related terms

 * antenatal
 * innate
 * nascent
 * natal
 * national
 * nationality
 * native


 * nativity
 * nativization
 * nativism
 * nature
 * natural
 * naturism
 * naturalism
 * prenatal

Noun
nation


 * 1) Damnation.

Adverb
nation


 * 1)  Extremely; very
 * I'm nation sorry for you. -- Mark Twain

Thesaurus
Everyman, John Doe, Public, ally, animal kingdom, archduchy, archdukedom, blood, body politic, breed, brood, buffer state, captive nation, chieftaincy, chieftainry, citizenry, city-state, clan, class, colony, common man, commonweal, commonwealth, community, community at large, constituency, country, county, cultural community, culture, deme, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, dwellers, earldom, empery, empire, estate, ethnic group, everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, family, folk, folks, free city, general public, gens, gentry, grand duchy, habitancy, house, inhabitants, kind, kingdom, land, line, lineage, linguistic community, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, matriclan, men, nationality, order, patriclan, people, people at large, people in general, persons, phratry, phyle, plant kingdom, polis, polity, populace, population, possession, power, principality, principate, protectorate, province, public, puppet government, puppet regime, race, realm, republic, satellite, seneschalty, sept, settlement, society, sovereign nation, species, speech community, state, stem, stirps, stock, strain, sultanate, superpower, territory, toparchia, toparchy, totem, tribe, whole people, world, you and me

Etymology 1
nation, nacioun from nation, nacion from  nationem, accusative of natio, (g)natio "nation, race, birth" from (g)natus, past participle stem of (g)nasci “to be born”. Displaced native Middle English theode, thede "nation" (from Old English þēod), Middle English burthe "birth, nation, race, nature", Middle English leod, leode, lede "people, race" (from Old English lēod).

Etymology 2
Probably short for damnation

Noun

 * Afrikaans: nasie,
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 * Ido: naciono
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 * Japanese: 国家 (こっか, kokka)
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 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: نیشتیمان, نه‌ته‌وه
 * Latvian: nācija, tauta
 * Lithuanian: nacija, tauta, tautybė
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 * Cyrillic: народ, нација
 * Roman: narod, nacija
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 * Sotho: setjhaba,  sechaba
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 * Telugu: జాతి
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Anagrams

 * anoint
 * Tonian

Noun

 * 1) nation

Derived terms

 * national

Anagrams

 * tonnai

Noun

 * 1) a nation, a nationality, a people
 * 2) a nation, a country, a state
 * 3) a union or fraternity of students from the same province

Related terms

 * Förenta nationerna
 * nationaldag
 * nationalism
 * nationalist
 * nationalitet
 * nationell
 * Nationernas förbund
 * nationshus
 * nationsliv
 * studentnation