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наро́д — meaning in English

narod

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English meaning

  • commonalty noun The common people; the commonality.
  • folk adj Belonging to or originating from ordinary people, their traditions, and their culture, rather than experts or elites.
  • 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.
  • nationality noun The legal status of belonging to a particular nation, usually shown on a passport.
  • people noun Human beings in general, or the men, women and children of a particular group, place or nation.
  • public adj Open and visible to everyone; not hidden or private.
  • society noun A large group of people who share a culture, laws, and way of life, typically within a country or region.

Senses

наро́д is used for these senses in English:

  • commonalty The common people; the commonality.
  • folk (countable, archaic) A people; a tribe or nation; the inhabitants of a region, especially the native inhabitants.
  • nation (collective) A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
  • nationality National origin or identity; legal membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise. [from 18th c.]
  • people (countable, collective) Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc.
  • people The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.
  • public (countable, uncountable) Chiefly preceded by the: members of the community or the people in general, regardless of membership of any particular group.
  • society (uncountable) The people of one’s country or community taken as a whole.

commonalty — full definition

  1. noun The common people; the commonality.
  2. noun A group of things having similar characteristics.
  3. noun A class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank; commoners.
  4. noun The state or quality of having things in common.

folk — full definition

  1. adj Belonging to or originating from ordinary people, their traditions, and their culture, rather than experts or elites.
  2. noun A genre of traditional or traditionally-styled music, often acoustic and rooted in a particular culture.

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