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 Modernization theory, which has superseded primordialism as the dominant explanation of nationalism, adopts a constructivist approach and proposes that nationalism emerged due to processes of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. Ben Wallace:

   This is more than just technical - this is also about behavior, it wasn't that long ago that the United Kingdom and other nations called out China publicly for some of its cyber activity. And if we are going to allow countries access to our markets, I think we should all expect a code of behavior which is fair play.

2. Viktor Orban:

   We know well that the future is not defined by the curvature of the cucumber but by the bearing of the European man, we are part of Europe and want to shape its future together with the other nations.

3. Sacha Sergio Llorenti Soliz:

   United Nations ambassador not only unilaterally attacked, but while we were discussing here and demanding the need for an independent investigation an impartial investigation, complete investigation into the attacks, United Nations ambassador has become to that investigator, has become the prosecutor, has become the judge, has become the jury.

4. Rand Paul of Kentucky:

   There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts, go unchallenged.

5. Winston Churchill:

   A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.

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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