nation

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
发音 nā'shən

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. collective
    — The Roma are a nation without a country.
  2. Damnation. rare
    — ... 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[…]
  3. 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.; A community united by some trait (especially an interest) but not historically constituted. broadly,collective,humorous,informal,often
    — Near-synonym: tribe
  4. A sovereign state; (loosely, metonymic, proscribed) a country. metonymically
    — Though legally single nations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups.
  5. An association of students based on the birthplace or ethnicity of its members. historical
    — Once widespread across Europe in medieval times, nations are now largely restricted to the ancient universities of Sweden and Finland.
  6. A great number; a great deal. obsolete
    — […]and what a nation of herbs he had procured to mollify her humours, &c. &c.[…]
  7. 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. An intensifier; extreme, great. dialectal,rare
    — ... a nation deal o' trouble to captivate him.
副词 adv.
  1. Extremely, very. dialectal,rare
    — “Looky here, Bilgewater,” he says, “I’m nation sorry for you, but you ain’t the only person that’s had troubles like that.”

词形变化

nations plural 'nation alternative 'nation alternative 'nation alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
aspirant nation bedroom nation bug nation captive nation cybernation Delaware Nation domestic dependent nation egonation father of the nation First Nation First Nations Ford Nation Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation home nation independent mini-nation indispensable nation internation macronation micronation mini-nation model nation most favored nation most favoured nation mother of the nation multination Munsee-Delaware Nation nanonation natiolect national nation-builder nation-building nationful nationhood nationism nationist nationless nationlike Nation of Islam nation of laws nationship nation-state nation state nationwide nation wrecker Navajo Nation Neutral Nation new nation project one nation one-nation conservatism one-nation conservative plurination project nation proposition nation pseudonation pseudo-nation ronation Six Nations of the Grand River space nation State of the Nation student nation subnation supernation Test nation the race that stops a nation United Nations
相关词
antenatal innate nascent natal native nativism nativity nativization natural naturalism nature naturism prenatal country culture ethnicity homeland people race society state

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tisder.
Proto-Italic *gnātiō
Latin nātiōbor.
Old French nacionbor.
Middle English nacioun
English nation
From Middle English nacioun, nacion, from Old French nacion, from Latin nātiōnem, accusative of nātiō (“nation”). Displaced Old English þēod.
词源 2
Short for damnation or tarnation.
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