nations

noun

(collective) 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.

(international law, metonymic) A sovereign state; (loosely, metonymic, proscribed) a country.

(by extension, informal, often humorous) A community united by some trait (especially an interest) but not historically constituted.

In North America, an Indigenous people and their federally recognized territory.

A surname.

(chiefly historical) An association of students based on the birthplace or ethnicity of its members.

(obsolete) A great number; a great deal.

(rare) Damnation.

adjective

(rare, dialectal) An intensifier; extreme, great.

adverb

(rare, dialectal) Extremely, very.

Roots

nascornat- · Latin · be born

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