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'nation

'nation is the alternative form of nation.

'nation is the clipping of damnation.

Meaning of nation

Adverb

nation

  1. (dialectal, rare) Extremely, very.
    • “Looky here, Bilgewater,” he says, “I’m nation sorry for you, but you ain’t the only person that’s had troubles like that.”1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XIX, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 186

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Meaning of damnation

Interjection

  1. Expressing annoyance or disappointment; damn; dammit.
    • Oh damnation! The window doesn't shut!

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Questions about 'nation

What is 'nation the alternative form of?
'nation is the alternative form of nation.

Words near 'nation in the dictionary

  1. 'Namgis
  2. 'nana
  3. 'nanas
  4. 'naner
  5. 'naners
  6. 'nation
  7. 'Na̱mg̱is
  8. 'neath
  9. 'Net
  10. 'nother
  11. 'nough

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Adapted from Wiktionary: 'nation (page history and authors); nation (page history and authors); damnation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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