different between nation vs nationism

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: n?'sh?n, IPA^(key): /?ne??.??n/, /?ne??.??n/
• Rhymes: -e???n, -e???n

Etymology 1

From Middle English nacioun, nacion, from Old French nation, nacion, nasion (“nation”), from Latin n?ti?nem, accusative of (g)n?ti? (“nation, race, birth”) from (g)n?tus, past participle stem of (g)n?sc? (“to be born”). Displaced native Middle English theode, thede (“nation”) (from Old English þ?od), Middle English burthe (“birth, nation, race, nature”), Middle English leod, leode, lede (“people, race”) (from Old English l?od). Compare Saterland Frisian Nation (“nation”), West Frisian naasje (“nation”), Dutch natie (“nation”), German Low German Natschoon (“nation”). German Nation (“nation”), Danish nation (“nation”), Norwegian Bokmål nasjon (“nation”), Norwegian Nynorsk nasjon (“nation”), Swedish nation (“nation”).

Noun

nation (plural nations)

1. 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.

2. (international law) A sovereign state.

3. (chiefly historical) An association of students based on its members' birthplace or ethnicity.

4. (obsolete) A great number; a great deal.

Usage notes

• (British) Following the establishment of the Scottish and Welsh parliaments, England, Scotland and Wales are normally considered distinct nations. Application of the term nation to the United Kingdom as a whole is deprecated in most style guides, including the BBC, most newspapers and in UK Government publications. Northern Ireland, being of less clear legal status, generally remains a province.

Synonyms

• (nationality, people group, race or kindred): thede (archaic or obsolete)
• (association of students): student nation

Derived terms

Related terms

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Etymology 2

Probably short for damnation.

Noun

nation

1. (rare) Damnation.

Adverb

nation

1. (rare, dialectal) Extremely, very.

References

• "Notable and Quotable," Merriam Webster Online Newsletter (November, 2005) [1] (as accessed on December 23, 2005).

Anagrams

• Tonian, anoint

Danish

Etymology

From Latin n?ti? (“birth, people”), derived from the verb n?scor (“to be born”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [na??o?n]

Noun

nation c (singular definite nationen, plural indefinite nationer)

1. a nation, a people with a common identity, united in history, culture or language
2. a nation, a country that is a politically independent unity

Inflection

References

• “nation” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

From Middle French nation, from Old French nacion, borrowed from Latin n?ti?nem, accusative singular of n?ti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na.sj??/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

nation f (plural nations)

1. nation

Derived terms

Anagrams

• tonnai

Further reading

• “nation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French nacion.

Noun

nation f (plural nations)

1. nation

Descendants

• French: nation

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nat??u?n/

Noun

nation c

1. a nation, a nationality, a people
2. a nation, a country, a state
3. a union or fraternity of students from the same province

Declension

Related terms

• Förenta nationerna
• nationaldag
• nationalism
• nationalist
• nationalitet
• nationell
• Nationernas förbund
• nationshus
• nationsliv
• studentnation

English

Etymology

From nation +? -ism, by Joshua Fishman, 1968.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ne???n?z(?)m/

Noun

nationism (countable and uncountable, plural nationisms)

1. (sociolinguistics) The practical concerns of running a nation, especially seen as divorced from emotional beliefs about national identity.
   • 1992, Sandra McKay, Teaching English Overseas: an Introduction, p. 9:

     In determining language policies, Fishman contends that a country needs to balance the concerns of nationalism (the feelings that develop from a sense of group identity) and nationism (the practical concerns of governing).

   • 2002, Tim Ingold, Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology, p. 544:

     For these nations language was a prior criterion of national identity, in the sense of ‘nationalism’, and only later became and issue at the level of ‘nation’, once these societies had made the transition from nationalism to nationism.

   • 2008, Andrew Simpson, Language and National Identity in Africa, p. 22:

     Instead of this, the dominant role of language in nation-building in many states, at least in the early post-independence era, has been […] pragmatic nationism rather than aggressive nationalism.

Usage notes

Contrasted with nationalism – nationism pertains to practical concerns, while nationalism pertains to questions of identity.

Derived terms

• nationist

See also

• nationalism
• nationalist

References

Anagrams

• Minoanist, Timonians