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Definition of Nation

Nation

  1. A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock.
  2. The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own.
  3. Family; lineage.
  4. One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe.
  5. One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity.
  6. A great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs.

Nation Quotations

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Ronald Reagan

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
George Washington

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
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Nation Translations

nation in Danish is folk, nation
nation in Dutch is natie, volk
nation in Finnish is kansa, kansakunta
nation in French is peuple, nation
nation in German is Volk, Nation, Nation
nation in Hungarian is nemzet
nation in Italian is nazione
nation in Latin is natio nationis, natio, gens, populus
nation in Swedish is folk, nation

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