carrie am nation
ʃən
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nation (ˈneɪʃən) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | an aggregation of people or peoples of one or more cultures, races, etc, organized into a single state: the Australian nation |
| 2. | a community of persons not constituting a state but bound by common descent, language, history, etc: the French-Canadian nation |
| 3. | a. a federation of tribes, esp American Indians |
| b. the territory occupied by such a federation | |
| [C13: via Old French from Latin nātiō birth, tribe, from nascī to be born] | |
| 'nationhood | |
| —n | |
| 'nationless | |
| —adj | |
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nation
c.1300, from O.Fr. nacion, from L. nationem (nom. natio) "nation, stock, race," lit. "that which has been born," from natus, pp. of nasci "be born" (Old L. gnasci; see genus). Political sense has gradually taken over from racial meaning "large group of people with common ancestry."
Older sense preserved in application to N.Amer. Indian peoples (1640s). Nation-building first attested 1907 (implied in nation-builder).
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