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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

  1. noun A large group of people who share a common history, culture, language, or identity, often but not always tied to a specific country.
  2. noun A country, especially as a political and territorial unit.

power — full definition

  1. noun The ability to do something, or to control and influence people or events.
  2. noun Physical strength or energy, especially electricity.
  3. verb To supply energy to a device so it can run.
  4. noun In mathematics, the result of multiplying a number by itself a given number of times.

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