{
    "term": "nation",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a country considered as a group of people with the same language, culture and history, who live in a particular area under one government",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "European/Arab/Asian nations"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The West African nation of Togo has presidential elections this week."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Developing nations** need affordable access to drugs and medication."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fewer and fewer people in **industrialized nations** actually know where their food comes from."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Leaders of the nations signed a declaration of support."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This is an important moment in our nation's history."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Germans celebrated yesterday in Berlin, the nation's capital."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the island nation of Cuba."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They discussed how to revive the nation's economy."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The Republic of Surinam was established as an independent nation in 1985."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Qatar was host nation for the 2022 World Cup."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In 1950 the UK was the world's largest debtor nation and the US the largest creditor."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The biggest task of the government was to address national unity and nation building."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They hoped that the exhibition would enhance the cultural life of the nation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They wanted to create a new nation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "economic inequality among the nations of the world"
                },
                {
                    "text": "swings in public opinion across the nation"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the imperialist expansion of Western nations in the 1880s"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the member nations of the UN"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the richest nation on earth"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the threat of attack from terrorists or rogue nations"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Leaders of the G7 leading industrial nations backed the plan."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Tanzania, Kenya and other east African nations have been particularly affected."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The leaders of some of the world's most powerful nations attended the meeting."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The programme is aimed at training more doctors in developing nations."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sovereign nations have the right to control over their own natural resources."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["large", "little", "small"],
                "verb + nation": ["build", "create", "divide"],
                "nation + noun": ["state"],
                "preposition": [
                    "across a/​the nation",
                    "among nations",
                    "in a/​the nation"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "the birth of a/​the nation",
                    "the interests of a/​the nation",
                    "the life of a/​the nation"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "all the people in a country",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The entire nation, it seemed, was watching TV."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They are a nation of food lovers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The entire nation mourned her death."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the savage murder that shocked the nation"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The fight against terrorism seemed to unite the nation."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In the nation as a whole there is no desire for war."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The new economic policies were in the best interests of the nation at large."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "population",
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["large", "little", "small"],
                "verb + nation": ["build", "create", "divide"],
                "nation + noun": ["state"],
                "preposition": [
                    "across a/​the nation",
                    "among nations",
                    "in a/​the nation"
                ],
                "phrases": [
                    "the birth of a/​the nation",
                    "the interests of a/​the nation",
                    "the life of a/​the nation"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a native North American people",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Minnesota is home to 11 **tribal nations**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the Dakota/Cheyenne nation"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The team is made up of riders from Navajo, Cherokee, Sioux and Chippewa tribal nations."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Indigenous nations had been left out of the planning and delivery of the project."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "tribe"
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈneɪʃn/",
                "audio": "na/nation/nation__gb_3.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈneɪʃn/",
                "audio": "na/nation/nation__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: via Old French from Latin natio(n-), from nat- ‘born’, from the verb nasci."
}