nationful

plural nationfuls · plural nationsful

1. As much as a nation would hold.

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

   2015, Mary Balogh, Silent Melody, Penguin, →ISBN, page 102

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   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.

   2010, Carola Dunn, chapter 7, in Lady in the Briars, Belgrave House, →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.

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