| natality | (noun) the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year | Synonyms: birth rate, birthrate, fertility, fertility rate |
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| natation | (noun) the act of someone who floats on the water | Synonyms: floating |
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| natator | (noun) a person who travels through the water by swimming | Synonyms: bather, swimmer |
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| natatorium | (noun) pool that provides a facility for swimming | Synonyms: swimming bath, swimming pool |
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| nates | (noun) the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on | Synonyms: arse, ass, backside, behind, bottom, bum, buns, butt, buttocks, can, derriere, fanny, fundament, hind end, hindquarters, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, seat, stern, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush |
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| nation | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, country, land, res publica, state |
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| (noun) the people who live in a nation or country | Synonyms: country, land |
| (noun) a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes) | - |
| national | (noun) a person who owes allegiance to that nation | Synonyms: subject |
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| nationalisation | (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, communization, nationalization |
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| (noun) the action of rendering national in character | Synonyms: nationalization |
| (noun) the action of forming or becoming a nation | Synonyms: nationalization |
| nationalism | (noun) love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | Synonyms: patriotism |
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| (noun) the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other | - |
| (noun) the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals | - |
| (noun) the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination | - |
| nationalist | (noun) one who loves and defends his or her country | Synonyms: patriot |
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| (noun) an advocate of national independence of or a strong national government | - |
| nationality | (noun) people having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation | - |
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| (noun) the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization | - |
| nationalization | (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, communization, nationalisation |
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| (noun) the action of rendering national in character | Synonyms: nationalisation |
| (noun) the action of forming or becoming a nation | Synonyms: nationalisation |
| nationhood | (noun) the state of being a nation | - |
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| native | (noun) indigenous plants and animals | - |
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| (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, indigene |
| (noun) a person born in a particular place or country | - |
| nativeness | (noun) the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin | - |
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| nativism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are innate | - |
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| (noun) the policy of perpetuating native cultures (in opposition to acculturation) | - |
| nativist | (noun) a philosopher who subscribes to nativism | - |
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| nativity | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascence, nascency |
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| natriuresis | (noun) the presence of abnormally large amounts of sodium in the urine | - |
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| natrolite | (noun) a group of minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of sodium and aluminum | - |
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| natterjack | (noun) common brownish-yellow short-legged toad of western Europe; runs rather than hops | Synonyms: Bufo calamita |
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| nattiness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: dapperness, jauntiness, rakishness |
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| natural | (noun) (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake | - |
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| (noun) a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat | Synonyms: cancel |
| (noun) someone regarded as certain to succeed | - |
| naturalisation | (noun) the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship | Synonyms: naturalization |
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| (noun) changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology | Synonyms: naturalization |
| (noun) the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous | Synonyms: naturalization |
| (noun) the quality of being brought into conformity with nature | Synonyms: naturalization |
| naturalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations | - |
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| (noun) an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description | Synonyms: realism |
| naturalist | (noun) a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology) | Synonyms: natural scientist |
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| (noun) an advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms | - |
| naturalization | (noun) the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship | Synonyms: naturalisation |
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| (noun) changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| (noun) the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| (noun) the quality of being brought into conformity with nature | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| naturalness | (noun) the quality of being natural or based on natural principles | - |
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| (noun) the likeness of a representation to the thing represented | - |
| (noun) the quality of innocent naivete | Synonyms: artlessness, ingenuousness, innocence |
| nature | (noun) the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions | - |
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| (noun) the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized | - |
| (noun) a particular type of thing | - |
| (noun) the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc. | - |
| (noun) a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe | - |
| naturism | (noun) going without clothes as a social practice | Synonyms: nudism |
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| naturist | (noun) a person who practices nudity for reasons of health or religion | Synonyms: nudist |
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| naturopath | (noun) a therapist who practices naturopathy | - |
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| naturopathy | (noun) a method of treating disease using food and exercise and heat to assist the natural healing process | - |
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