κράτος — meaning in English
kratos
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English meaning
- nation noun A large group of people who share a common history, culture, language, or identity, often but not always tied to a specific country.
- power noun The ability to do something, or to control and influence people or events.
- realm noun A kingdom or territory ruled by a monarch or supreme authority.
- Reich noun A German empire, kingdom, or state, especially Nazi Germany (the Third Reich).
- state noun The particular condition someone or something is in at a given time.
Senses
κράτος is used for these senses in English:
- Reich A German empire, kingdom or nation; its territory or government.
- nation (international, _, legal, metonymically) A sovereign state; (loosely, metonymically, proscribed) a country.
- power (metonymically, chiefly, in the plural) The people in charge of legal or political power, the government.
- realm (archaic, or, legal, &, rhetoric) A territory or state, as ruled by an absolute authority, especially by a king; a kingdom. [from ca. 1300]
- state (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
- state A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.
nation — full definition
- noun A large group of people who share a common history, culture, language, or identity, often but not always tied to a specific country.
- noun A country, especially as a political and territorial unit.
power — full definition
- noun The ability to do something, or to control and influence people or events.
- noun Physical strength or energy, especially electricity.
- verb To supply energy to a device so it can run.
- noun In mathematics, the result of multiplying a number by itself a given number of times.