英语词汇“nation”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	nation
释义	na·tion I. \ˈnāshən\ noun (-s) Etymology: Middle English nacioun, from Middle French nation, from Latin nation-, natio birth, race, people, nation, from gnatus, natus (past participle of nasci to be born) + -ion-, -io -ion; akin to Latin gignere to beget — more at kin 1. a. (1) : nationality 5a < after the division of Poland … the nation existed without a state — F.A.Magruder > < three Slav peoples … forged into a Yugoslavia without really fusing into a Yugoslav nation — Hans Kohn > (2) : a politically organized nationality; especially : one having independent existence in a nation-state b. : a community of people composed of one or more nationalities and possessing a more or less defined territory and government < India is … a member nation of the British Commonwealth — New York Times Magazine > < Canada is a nation with a written constitution — B.K.Sandwell > — compare state c. : a territorial division containing a body of people of one or more nationalities and usually characterized by relatively large size and independent status < a Roman province was far above a satrapy though far below a nation — Goldwin Smith > < a nation of vast size with a small population — Mary K. Hammond > 2. archaic : a particular group or aggregation (as of men or animals) < the scaly nations of the sea profound — John Dryden > < you are a subtle nation, you physicians — Ben Jonson > 3. a. : a division of the student body forming a relatively independent community within a medieval university and comprising students from a particular locality (as a country or region) b. : a similar division of students at Glasgow and Aberdeen universities in Scotland for the purpose of electing a rector < the nations into which the body of matriculated students is divided — Glasgow University Cal. > 4. a. : tribe : a federation of tribes (as of American Indians); specifically : one having a measure of political cohesion < that part of the Shawnee nation inhabiting the upper Savannah river — Geraldine De Courcy > < the five nations of Iroquois > b. : the territory occupied by such a tribe or federation of American Indians Synonyms: see race II. adjective Etymology: short for damnation, from damnation, n. chiefly dialect : great, large < there was a nation sight of folks there — T.C.Haliburton > III. adverb Etymology: short for damnation, from damnation, n. chiefly dialect : extremely, very < I'm nation sorry for you — Mark Twain > IV. noun (-s) Etymology: short for damnation chiefly dialect : damnation < nation seize such husbands as you seem to get — Thomas Hardy > < what in the nation are we doing down here — MacKinlay Kantor > < how in the nation are these fellows going to be ransomed — Mark Twain >
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