transcription, транскрипция: [ neɪʃ(ə)n ]
( nations)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
A nation is an individual country considered together with its social and political structures.
Such policies would require unprecedented cooperation between nations...
The Arab nations agreed to meet in Baghdad.
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2.
The nation is sometimes used to refer to all the people who live in a particular country. ( JOURNALISM )
It was a story that touched the nation’s heart.
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