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NATION

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Traducere în limba română

nation I. substantiv

1. naţiune, popor;

the nations of Europe naţiunile Europei, popoarele europene;

the United Nations Organization (UNO) Organizaţia Naţiunilor Unite (ONU);

the voice of the nation glasul poporului.

2. naţiune, stat.

3. număr mare, legiune.

nation II. adjectiv, adverb

(amer. dial.) al naibii, al dracului.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

The solar eclipse will appear on December 25 in the United States and South America, and on the following day, December 26, for readers living in other time zones and nations of the world.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

For a moment a dozen challenges flashed backwards and forwards at this sudden bursting of the cloud which had lowered so long between the knights of the two nations.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They conversed of things I had never heard of; of nations and times past; of countries far away; of secrets of nature discovered or guessed at: they spoke of books: how many they had read!

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

When I gave that free censure of the country and its inhabitants, he made no further answer than by telling me, that I had not been long enough among them to form a judgment; and that the different nations of the world had different customs; with other common topics to the same purpose.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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