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{
"term": "nation",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a country considered as a group of people with the same language, culture and history, who live in a particular area under one government",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "European/Arab/Asian nations"
},
{
"text": "The West African nation of Togo has presidential elections this week."
},
{
"text": "**Developing nations** need affordable access to drugs and medication."
},
{
"text": "Fewer and fewer people in **industrialized nations** actually know where their food comes from."
},
{
"text": "Leaders of the nations signed a declaration of support."
},
{
"text": "This is an important moment in our nation's history."
},
{
"text": "Germans celebrated yesterday in Berlin, the nation's capital."
},
{
"text": "the island nation of Cuba."
},
{
"text": "They discussed how to revive the nation's economy."
},
{
"text": "The Republic of Surinam was established as an independent nation in 1985."
},
{
"text": "Qatar was host nation for the 2022 World Cup."
},
{
"text": "In 1950 the UK was the world's largest debtor nation and the US the largest creditor."
},
{
"text": "The biggest task of the government was to address national unity and nation building."
},
{
"text": "They hoped that the exhibition would enhance the cultural life of the nation."
},
{
"text": "They wanted to create a new nation."
},
{
"text": "economic inequality among the nations of the world"
},
{
"text": "swings in public opinion across the nation"
},
{
"text": "the imperialist expansion of Western nations in the 1880s"
},
{
"text": "the member nations of the UN"
},
{
"text": "the richest nation on earth"
},
{
"text": "the threat of attack from terrorists or rogue nations"
},
{
"text": "Leaders of the G7 leading industrial nations backed the plan."
},
{
"text": "Tanzania, Kenya and other east African nations have been particularly affected."
},
{
"text": "The leaders of some of the world's most powerful nations attended the meeting."
},
{
"text": "The programme is aimed at training more doctors in developing nations."
},
{
"text": "Sovereign nations have the right to control over their own natural resources."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["large", "little", "small"],
"verb + nation": ["build", "create", "divide"],
"nation + noun": ["state"],
"preposition": [
"across a/the nation",
"among nations",
"in a/the nation"
],
"phrases": [
"the birth of a/the nation",
"the interests of a/the nation",
"the life of a/the nation"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "all the people in a country",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The entire nation, it seemed, was watching TV."
},
{
"text": "They are a nation of food lovers."
},
{
"text": "The entire nation mourned her death."
},
{
"text": "the savage murder that shocked the nation"
},
{
"text": "The fight against terrorism seemed to unite the nation."
},
{
"text": "In the nation as a whole there is no desire for war."
},
{
"text": "The new economic policies were in the best interests of the nation at large."
}
],
"synonyms": "population",
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["large", "little", "small"],
"verb + nation": ["build", "create", "divide"],
"nation + noun": ["state"],
"preposition": [
"across a/the nation",
"among nations",
"in a/the nation"
],
"phrases": [
"the birth of a/the nation",
"the interests of a/the nation",
"the life of a/the nation"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a native North American people",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Minnesota is home to 11 **tribal nations**."
},
{
"text": "the Dakota/Cheyenne nation"
},
{
"text": "The team is made up of riders from Navajo, Cherokee, Sioux and Chippewa tribal nations."
},
{
"text": "Indigenous nations had been left out of the planning and delivery of the project."
}
],
"synonyms": "tribe"
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈneɪʃn/",
"audio": "na/nation/nation__gb_3.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈneɪʃn/",
"audio": "na/nation/nation__us_2.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: via Old French from Latin natio(n-), from nat- ‘born’, from the verb nasci."
}