народ — meaning in English

English meaning

• commonalty noun Ordinary people collectively; the general public.
• 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

народ 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 Ordinary people collectively; the general public.
2. noun A set of things that share similar features.
3. noun People who hold no title of nobility or position in the clergy.
4. noun The fact of sharing certain features or interests with others.

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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