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nationful

noun

Etymology

From nation + -ful.

  1. derived from nātiōnem
  2. derived from nacion
  3. inherited from nacioun
  4. suffixed as nationful — “nation + ful”

Definitions

  1. As much as a nation would hold.

    • With a nationful of prospective Russian teachers in the offing and Annie no longer plagued by nausea, she saw her usefulness to the Graylins at an end.
    • "Did you have enemies?" Luke asked. “A nationful," Ashley said with a laugh.
    • When Brooks wrote his Law, then, he took aim at a nationful of metropolitan readers who were broadly Christian, ardently American, and deeply reform-minded.

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