English-Italian translations for nation

• nazione
  Abbiamo qui una non nazione che tenta di abolire la nostra nazione. Here we have a non-nation trying to abolish our nation.
  E la nazione che vi gioca è perduta!” And the nation that plays it is lost!'
  Ma una nazione non è semplicemente storia passata. Yet a nation is not simply past history.
• nation
• stato
  Ci è stato negato il diritto di esistere come nazione. Our right to existence as a nation was taken away.
  Cosa è stato fatto per quanto riguarda il calcio a livello nazionale? What is being done about national football?
  Non possiamo arrogarci il diritto di isolare uno Stato-nazione di 1,3 miliardi di persone. We cannot isolate a nation-state of 1.3 billion people.

Definition of nation

• 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
• A sovereign state
• An association of students based on its membersbirthplace or ethnicity
• A great number; a great deal
• Damnation
• Extremely, very

Examples

• The Roma are a nation without a country
• The Kurdish people constitute a nation in the Middle East
• Though legally single nations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups
• Once widespread across Europe in medieval times, nations are now largely restricted to the ancient universities of Sweden and Finland

Related words

• declination
• nationality
• international
• destination
• assignation
• intonation
• imagination
• national
• nomination