a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular state or territory 民族;国家 leading industrialized nations. 最重要的工业化国家。 ■a North American Indian people or confederation of peoples 北美印第安民族(或部落)
常用词组 one nation
[often as modifier]a nation not divided by social inequality 一个国家,不分贫富 one-nation Tories. 主张天下大同的托利党人。
派生 nationhood noun 语源
Middle English; via Old French from Latin natio(n-), from nat- 'born', from the verb nasci