nation-stateWiktionary 原文词源说明Compound of nation + state. Coined c. 1890s under the influence of European languages; compare German Nationalstaat (from 1840s), Italian Stato-nazione (from 1860s).释义（英文）名词 Noun(politics) A political entity (a state) associated with a common national identity (historically, culturally, or ethnically; as with a nation) and a sovereign territorial unit.(more generally, proscribed) Any independent political state; a country.词族派生词（1）aspirant nation-state