NATIONS
Noun
nations
plural of nation
Anagrams
• Santino, anoints, onanist
Source: Wiktionary
NATION
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