Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
NATION
nation, land, country
(noun) the people who live in a nation or country; “a statement that sums up the nation’s mood”; “the news was announced to the nation”; “the whole country worshipped him”
state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic
(noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government; “the state has elected a new president”; “African nations”; “students who had come to the nation’s capitol”; “the country’s largest manufacturer”; “an industrialized land”
nation
(noun) a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes); “the Shawnee nation”
Nation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation
(noun) United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
nation (plural nations)
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.
(international legal) A sovereign state.
(chiefly, historical) An association of students based on its members' birthplace or ethnicity.
(obsolete) A great number; a great deal.
Usage notes
• (British) Following the establishment of the Scottish and Welsh parliaments, England, Scotland and Wales are normally considered distinct nations. Application of the term nation to the United Kingdom as a whole is deprecated in most style guides, including the BBC, most newspapers and in UK Government publications. Northern Ireland, being of less clear legal status, generally remains a province.
Synonyms
• (nationality, people group, race or kindred): thede
• (association of students): student nation
Etymology 2
Noun
nation
(rare) Damnation.
Adverb
nation
(rare, dialectal) Extremely, very.
Anagrams
• Tonian, anoint
Source: Wiktionary
Na"tion, n. Etym: [F. nation, L. natio nation, race, orig., a being born, fr. natus, p.p. of nasci, to be born, for gnatus, gnaci, from the same root as E. kin. *44. See Kin kindred, and cf. Cognate, Natal, Native.]
1. (Ethnol.)
Definition: 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. [Obs.] Chaucer.
4. (a) One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe. (b) (Scotch Universities) One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity.
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.
Syn.
– people; race. See People.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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