英和和英

名詞

nationful (複数形 nationfuls または nationsful)

1. As much as a nation would hold.
   • 2010, Carola Dunn, Lady in the Briars, Belgrave House (→ISBN), chapter 7:

     With a nationful of prospective Russian teachers in the offing and Annie no longer plagued by nausea, she saw her usefulness to the Graylins at an end.

   • 2015, Mary Balogh, Silent Melody, Penguin (→ISBN), page 102:

     "Did you have enemies?" Luke asked. “A nationful," Ashley said with a laugh.

   • 2019, Sara Georgini, Household Gods: The Religious Lives of the Adams Family, Oxford University Press (→ISBN)

     When Brooks wrote his Law, then, he took aim at a nationful of metropolitan readers who were broadly Christian, ardently American, and deeply reform-minded.