Nation

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.”

2. isim A community united by some trait (especially an interest) but not historically constituted.

   “the Dallas Cowboys nation”

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

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

4. isim 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.”

5. isim A great number; a great deal.

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

6. isim 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.”

7. isim Damnation.

   “... 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[…]”

8. zarf 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.””

9. sıfat An intensifier; extreme, great.

   “... a nation deal o' trouble to captivate him.”

10. özel isim A surname.