The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nation \Na"tion\, n. [F. nation, L. natio nation, race, orig., a being born, fr. natus, p. p. of nasci, to be born, for gnatus, gnasci, from the same root as E. kin. [root]44. See Kin kindred, and cf. Cognate, Natal, Native.]
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(Ethnol.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock.
All nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues.
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The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own.
A nation is the unity of a people.
--Coleridge.Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
--F. S. Key. Family; lineage. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe.
(Scotch Universities) One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity.
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A great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs.
--Sterne.Five nations. See under Five.
Law of nations. See International law, under International, and Law.
Syn: people; race. See People.
Five \Five\ (f[imac]v), a. [OE. fif, five, AS. f[=i]f, f[=i]fe; akin to D. vijf, OS. f[=i]f, OHG. finf, funf, G. f["u]nf, Icel. fimm, Sw. & Sw. Dan. fem, Goth. fimf, Lith. penki, W. pump, OIr. c['o]ic, L. quinque, Gr. pe`nte, [AE]ol. pe`mpe, Skr. pa[~n]can. [root]303. Cf. Fifth, Cinque, Pentagon, Punch the drink, Quinary.] Four and one added; one more than four.
Five nations (Ethnol.), a confederacy of the Huron-Iroquois Indians, consisting of five tribes: Mohawks, Onondagas, Cayugas, Oneidas, and Senecas. They inhabited the region which is now the State of new York.
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Usage examples of "five nations".
The Japanese Machine had so far passed all the prescribed tests, and a crew had been agreed upon that was not merely representative -- if imperfectly -- of the population of the planet, but which included genuine individuals not stamped out by the official cookie cutters of five nations.
The Japanese Machine had so far passed all the prescribed tests, and a crew had been agreed upon that was not merely representative--if imperfectly--of the population of the planet, but which included genuine individuals not stamped out by the official cookie cutters of five nations.
Women and little children were butchered, and because of this fact these five nations, especially, were headed for mutual extermination.
The earliest of the five types, the A-bomb, is now known to be possessed by at least five nations.
The earliest of the five types, the A - bomb, is now known to be possessed by at least five nations.
Many may emigrate from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, and Libya, the five nations most often connected with terrorism.
The five nations had quarrelled, and then been called together by Daganoweda for a council to decide how to end the fighting in these fair valleys.
While I hold the titles of Jeddak of Jeddaks and Warlord of Barsoom, conferred upon me by the jeddaks of five nations, I have always considered them largely honorary, and have never presumed to exercise the authority implicit in them, except in times of war when even the great Jeddak of Helium has graciously served under me.