one nation
one nation is the ellipsis of one-nation conservatism.
Meaning of one-nation conservatism
Noun
one-nation conservatism (uncountable)
- A pragmatic paternalistic form of conservatism, conscious of working-class issues.
- All this links Johnson firmly with his predecessors – Margaret Thatcher, John Major, David Cameron and Theresa May. So does (with Thatcher as the exception that proves the rule) his eagerness – on full display in his remarks in Downing Street on Friday – to employ that emptiest of empty signifiers...[2019 December 14, Tim Bale, “The real Boris Johnson: one-nation Tory or raging populist?”, in The Observer, →ISSN
- Synonyms:
- one nation, one-nationism, Tory Democracy
Proper noun capitalized: One Nation
One Nation
- Ellipsis of Pauline Hanson's One Nation, a right-wing populist and national conservative political party in Australia, founded by right-wing Queensland politician Pauline Hanson.
Noun capitalized: One Nation
One Nation (uncountable)
- Alternative letter-case form of one nation.
Synonyms of one nation
Forms of one nation
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Words formed from one nation
Questions about one nation
- What is one nation the ellipsis of?
- One nation is the ellipsis of one-nation conservatism.
- What part of speech is one nation?
- One nation can be a proper noun or a noun.
Words near one nation in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: one nation (page history and authors); One Nation (page history and authors); one-nation conservatism (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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