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nationhood

American  
[ney-shuhn-hood] / ˈneɪ ʃənˌhʊd /

noun

  1. the state or quality of having status as a separate and independent nation.

    an African colony that achieved nationhood.


Etymology

Origin of nationhood

First recorded in 1840–50; nation + -hood

Example Sentences

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Long existing beyond the boundaries of race, nationhood and categorical art movements, Lam produced a range of work, including graphic design, book illustrations, large Jackson Pollock-inspired abstractions, and expressionistic ceramics.

From The Wall Street Journal

Especially via elegies for men lost in battle over the past 250 years, the poems measure and celebrate the cost of nationhood.

From The Wall Street Journal

Yet all are undergirded by peoples that had a pre-existing sense of their own distinctiveness, their own nationhood.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Guardian's art critic Adrian Searle said of Matić's work: "Peace and protest, friendship and family are all mixed together, along with contested ideas of nationhood and belonging."

From BBC

The judges called it "an intimate and expansive epic about two people finding a pathway to love and each other", adding: "Rich in meditations about class, race and nationhood, this book has it all."

From BBC