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Webster's English Dictionary

nation

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. 44. See Kin kindred, and cf. Cognate, Natal, Native.]1. (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. (Rev. vii. 9.)

2. 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.)

3. Family; lineage. (Chaucer.)

4. (Scotch Universities) One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe. ()

5. 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. ()

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