body politic

短语

n. 国家（指在一个政府领导下组成一个政治集团的人民）

词形变化

bodies politic 复数 bodies politic

别名

body politique

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The collective body of a nation or state as politically organized.

    比喻
  2. 2.

    The collective body of a nation or state as exercising political functions.

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  3. 3.

    A corporation.

    古体

词汇关系

名词

同义词 6

country land state nation commonwealth res publica

上位词 2

political entity political unit

下位词 10

power ally dominion superpower city-state developing country foreign country great power Reich rogue state

部分词 1

estate

词源

From body + politic (postpositive adjective), calque of Latin corpus polīticum.

来源：wiktionary