nation-state

短语

n. 单一民族的独立国家

词形变化

nation-states 复数

别名

nation state

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A political entity (a state) associated with a common national identity (historically, culturally, or ethnically; as with a nation) and a sovereign territorial unit.

    民族国家

    政治
  2. 2.

    Any independent political state; a country.

词源

Compound of nation + state. Coined c. 1890s under the influence of European languages; compare German Nationalstaat (from 1840s), Italian Stato-nazione (from 1860s).

来源：wiktionary