carrie nation









carrie nation


noun

  1. Carry or Carrie (Amelia Moore),1846–1911, U.S. temperance leader.

noun

  1. an aggregation of people or peoples of one or more cultures, races, etc, organized into a single statethe Australian nation
  2. a community of persons not constituting a state but bound by common descent, language, history, etcthe French-Canadian nation
    1. a federation of tribes, esp American Indians
    2. the territory occupied by such a federation
n.

c.1300, from Old French nacion “birth, rank; descendants, relatives; country, homeland” (12c.) and directly from Latin nationem (nominative natio) “birth, origin; breed, stock, kind, species; race of people, tribe,” literally “that which has been born,” from natus, past participle of nasci “be born” (Old Latin gnasci; see genus). Political sense has gradually predominated, but earliest English examples inclined toward the racial meaning “large group of people with common ancestry.” Older sense preserved in application to North American Indian peoples (1640s). Nation-building first attested 1907 (implied in nation-builder).

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