nation
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Is nation a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (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.Examples: "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."collective
2. (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.Examples: "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."broadlycollectivehumorousinformaloften
3. (international law, metonymic) A sovereign state; (loosely, metonymic, proscribed) a country.Examples: "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."; "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 various nations, such as Austria and Prussia, against Napoleon."metonymically
4. (chiefly historical) An association of students based on the birthplace or ethnicity of its members.Examples: "Once widespread across Europe in medieval times, nations are now largely restricted to the ancient universities of Sweden and Finland."Synonyms: student nationhistorical
5. (obsolete) A great number; a great deal.Examples: "[…]and what a nation of herbs he had procured to mollify her humours, &c. &c.[…]"obsolete
noun (English)
1. (rare) Damnation.Examples: "... what the nation's the matter of that boy now ? If he's got them highsterics ag'in , I'll blister him from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet , sure as he's a - livin ' . " The doctor took up his hat and started out to meet[…]"; "O nation!.. if I were a man, […]"; "What the nation's the matter now?"rare
adv (English)
1. (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.”"; ""Beleddy, Mester, yo're a dab hand at axing questions, at ony rate! One has to look back a 'nation long way into one's books to find what yo I axen after."; "But no sense ov a place, some think, Is this here hill so high, - 'Cos there, full oft, 'tis nation coad, But that don't argufy."dialectalrare
adj (English)
1. (rare, dialectal) An intensifier; extreme, great.Examples: "... a nation deal o' trouble to captivate him."; "... a nation lot of hunters assembled, for it war known there war plenty of game ..."; "... a nation sight o' buzzin' an', ez Mr. Mayfield says,"dialectalrare
Definition source: Wiktionary