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nation

/ney-shuhn/US // ˈneɪ ʃən //UK // (ˈneɪʃən) //

国家,民族,国民,国

Related Words

tribe部族,部落,部队,部群democracy民主,民主政治,民主制度,民主制people人,人民,人们,人民群众union联盟,联盟的,联盟的情况community社区,共同体,群体,社群society社会,社团,协会,社群state国家,国家的,国家的情况public公共,公众,公开,公共的population人口,居民,人口数,人口数量commonwealth英联邦,联邦,英格兰,联邦政府domain领域,域,域名,领土land土地,陆地,地,陆上realm境界,境地populace民众,人民群众,民众的,居民monarchy君主制,君主政体,君主制国家,君主立宪制race比赛,赛跑,赛事,比赛中republic共和国,共和,共和制,共和党dominion统治权,主导权,主宰权,统治empire帝国,帝国的,帝国的发展,帝王sovereignty主权,主权主义,权力

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own: The president spoke to the nation about the new tax.
    • : the territory or country itself: the nations of Central America.
    • : a member tribe of an American Indian confederation.
    • : an aggregation of persons of the same ethnic family, often speaking the same language or cognate languages.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nouncountry with its own government
Forms: nations
Synonyms
community社区,共同体,群体,社群democracy民主,民主政治,民主制度,民主制people人,人民,人们,人民群众population人口,居民,人口数,人口数量public公共,公众,公开,公共的society社会,社团,协会,社群state国家,国家的,国家的情况tribe部族,部落,部队,部群union联盟,联盟的,联盟的情况commonwealth英联邦,联邦,英格兰,联邦政府domain领域,域,域名,领土dominion统治权,主导权,主宰权,统治empire帝国,帝国的,帝国的发展,帝王land土地,陆地,地,陆上monarchy君主制,君主政体,君主制国家,君主立宪制populace民众,人民群众,民众的,居民principality公国,公爵,侯爵府,侯爵领地race比赛,赛跑,赛事,比赛中realm境界,境地republic共和国,共和,共和制,共和党sovereignty主权,主权主义,权力body politic政治体,政治机构,政治团体,政治体制

Examples

  • As a whole, the US is currently 11th worldwide and fifth among developed nations for Covid-19 deaths.

  • The region’s nations have all had their eyes on the prize since the discovery of gas there a few years ago.

  • Their decisions will almost inevitably make the nation more divided, with those worst off relegated to a nightmare future in which they are left to fend for themselves.

  • As a nation, we became inured to a national death toll that has only recently dropped below a thousand people a day.

  • A downtown federal jail now has one of the steepest numbers of active cases in any federal prison facility in the nation.

  • Congress is now 92 percent Christian, resembling more to a papal enclave than our religiously diverse nation.

  • If Congress accurately reflected our nation on the basis of race, about 63 percent would be white, not 80 percent.

  • They carved a refuge out of the wilderness and then, in 200 years, built it into the most powerful nation on earth.

  • The television networks interrupt their broadcasts to take the nation directly to Selma.

  • And besides, as a nation, we hold this truth to be self-evident:  resolutions are made to be broken.

  • My son,” said Grabantak one evening to Chingatok, “if we are henceforth to live in peace, why not unite and become one nation?

  • He could not tell what I meant by secrets of state, where an enemy or some rival nation were not in the case.

  • For the first time in his experience the Corsican had to meet the forces of a nation and not of a government.

  • Gourges fitted out three vessels and 150 soldiers at his own expense to revenge their death, and repair the honor of his nation.

  • He made a violent assault against the nation of his enemies, and in the descent he destroyed the adversaries.

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