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nation

noun
/ˈneɪʃən/

Etymology

From Middle English nacioun, nacion, from Old French nacion, from Latin nātiōnem, accusative of nātiō (“nation”). Displaced native Old English þēod.

  1. derived from nātiōnem
  2. derived from nacion
  3. inherited from nacioun

Definitions

  1. A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common…

    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.

    • 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.

  2. A sovereign state

    A sovereign state; (loosely, metonymic, proscribed) a country.

    • Though legally single nations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups.

  3. An association of students based on the birthplace or ethnicity of its members.

    • Once widespread across Europe in medieval times, nations are now largely restricted to the ancient universities of Sweden and Finland.
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A great number

      A great number; a great deal.

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

    2. In North America, an Indigenous people with federal and/or state recognition as such and…

      In North America, an Indigenous people with federal and/or state recognition as such and (often also) their federally recognized territory.

      • The Choctaw Nation is the third-largest federally recognized tribe in the United States and the second-largest Indian reservation in area.
      • The term Navajo Nation refers both to the people and to their territory.

    3. Damnation.

      • O nation!.. if I were a man, […]
      • What the nation's the matter now?

    4. Extremely, very.

      • “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.

    5. An intensifier

      An intensifier; extreme, great.

      • ... 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,

    6. A surname.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at nation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at nation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at nation

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA