anglais > français | |
nation | |
1. n. Peuple, ethnie. | |
2. n. Nation. | |
in 1789, the French nation rebelled against her king. | |
anglais > anglais | |
nation | |
1. n. A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture. | |
The Roma are a nation without a country. | |
The Kurdish people constitute a nation in the Middle East | |
2. n. (international legal) A sovereign state. | |
Though legally single nations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups. | |
3. n. (chiefly historical) An association of students based on its members' birthplace or ethnicity. | |
Once widespread across Europe in medieval times, nations are now largely restricted to the ancient universities of Sweden and Finland. | |
4. n. (obsolete) A great number; a great deal. | |
5. n. (rare) Damnation. | |
6. adv. (rare, dialectal) Extremely; very | |