nation (n.)
- ally
- archduchy
- blood
- breed
- brood
- chieftaincy
- citizenry
- city-state
- clan
- class
- colony
- commonweal
- commonwealth
- community
- constituency
- country
- county
- culture
- deme
- domain
- dominion
- duchy
- dukedom
- earldom
- empire
- estate
- everyman
- family
- folk
- folks
- gens
- gentry
- habitancy
- house
- kind
- kingdom
- land
- line
- lineage
- mandant
- mandate
- mandatory
- men
- nationality
- order
- people
- persons
- phratry
- phyle
- polis
- polity
- populace
- population
- possession
- power
- principality
- protectorate
- province
- public
- race
- realm
- republic
- satellite
- sept
- settlement
- society
- species
- state
- stem
- stock
- strain
- sultanate
- superpower
- territory
- totem
- tribe
- world
nation (adv.)
nation (adj.)
I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
And don't confound the language of the nation
With long-tailed words in osity and ation.
Into a world unknown,—the corner-stone of a nation!
The wealthy curled darlings of our nation.
God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.
I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
He hates our sacred nation, and he rails,
Even there where merchants most do congregate.
And don't confound the language of the nation
With long-tailed words in osity and ation.
I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto, "In God is our trust!"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
A song for our banner! The watchword recall
Which gave the Republic her station:
"United we stand, divided we fall!"
It made and preserves us a nation!
The union of lakes, the union of lands,
The union of States none can sever,
The union of hearts, the union of hands,
And the flag of our Union forever!
And thought the nation ne'er would thrive
Till all the whores were burnt alive.
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,—glittering like the morning star full of life and splendour and joy. . . . Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men,—in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded.
It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,—glittering like the morning star full of life and splendour and joy. . . . Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men,—in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded.
Why should not conscience have vacation
As well as other courts o' th' nation?
Righteousness exalteth a nation.
A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.
It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing to make it too common.
The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.
