Definitions for Nations
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1. nations

   A nation is a community of people formed on the basis of a combination of shared features such as language, history, ethnicity, culture and/or society. A nation is thus the collective identity of a group of people understood as defined by those features. Some nations are equated with ethnic groups (see ethnic nationalism) and some are equated with affiliation to a social and political constitution (see civic nationalism and multiculturalism). A nation is generally more overtly political than an ethnic group. A nation has also been defined as a cultural-political community that has become conscious of its autonomy, unity and particular interests.The consensus among scholars is that nations are socially constructed and historically contingent. Throughout history, people have had an attachment to their kin group and traditions, territorial authorities and their homeland, but nationalism – the belief that state and nation should align as a nation state – did not become a prominent ideology until the end of the 18th century. There are three notable perspectives on how nations developed. Primordialism (perennialism), which reflects popular conceptions of nationalism but has largely fallen out of favour among academics, proposes that there have always been nations and that nationalism is a natural phenomenon. Ethnosymbolism explains nationalism as a dynamic, evolving phenomenon and stresses the importance of symbols, myths and traditions in the development of nations and nationalism. Modernization theory, which has superseded primordialism as the dominant explanation of nationalism, adopts a constructivist approach and proposes that nationalism emerged due to processes of modernization, such as industrialization, urbanization, and mass education, which made national consciousness possible.Proponents of modernization theory describe nations as "imagined communities", a term coined by Benedict Anderson. A nation is an imagined community in the sense that the material conditions exist for imagining extended and shared connections and that it is objectively impersonal, even if each individual in the nation experiences themselves as subjectively part of an embodied unity with others. For the most part, members of a nation remain strangers to each other and will likely never meet. Nationalism is consequently seen an "invented tradition" in which shared sentiment provides a form of collective identity and binds individuals together in political solidarity. A nation's foundational "story" may be built around a combination of ethnic attributes, values and principles, and may be closely connected to narratives of belonging.

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1. nations

   Plural form of nation.

   All nations of the world aspire for peace and harmony on planet earth and know it is easily achieved.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on January 18, 2016  

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. NATIONS

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Nations is ranked #9050 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Nations surname appeared 3,610 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Nations.
   
   92.7% or 3,347 total occurrences were White.
   2.2% or 80 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   2.1% or 78 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.5% or 54 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.7% or 27 total occurrences were Black.
   0.6% or 24 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Nations' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2469

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Nations' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3506

Anagrams for Nations »

1. anoints

2. onanist

How to pronounce Nations?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Nations in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Nations in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Nations in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Nations in a Sentence

1. President Biden:

   They made the United States an outlier among developed nations in the world, but this decision must not be the final word.

2. Ro Khanna:

   The answer to that is not to defund WHO, the World Health Organization, and allow that international institution to become more dependent on the influence of China and other nations. The answer is to fund it but to shape the World Health Organization in a way thats consistent with American realities and the values of liberal democracies.

3. The President:

   We join with people around the world in praying for God's protection for persecuted Christians and those of other faiths, as well as for those brave men and women engaged in our military, diplomatic, and humanitarian efforts to alleviate their suffering and restore stability, security, and hope to their nations, in some areas of the Middle East where church bells have rung for centuries on Christmas Day, this year they will be silent; this silence bears tragic witness to the brutal atrocities committed against these communities by ISIL.

4. Brigitte Gabriel:

   Rejecting terrorism is not anti-Muslim, aCT For America rejects terrorism done in the name of any religion by anyone killing or targeting innocent civilians.ACT For America has always focused on speaking up against any threats to the United States posed by foreign or domestic groups or nations whether from radical Islamic terrorists to Iran, China, or domestic groups like Antifa.

5. President Ronald Reagan:

   Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself. ...[I] hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nations
2. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html