たいこく – Vocabulary details

たいこく

Noun

1. large country; major nation; great power

2. province of the highest rank (ritsuryo system)

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superpower; superstate

economic superpower; economic powerhouse

major agricultural country; agricultural power; agripower

once-powerful nation now in decline; great nation grown old

policy favouring major powers; policy of great powers favorable only to themselves

regional power; powerful nation within region

スイスは鉄てつ道どうたいこくです。

Switzerland is the land of the railway.

国くにが偉い大だいであるには必かならずしもたいこくである必ひつ要ようはない。

A nation need not necessarily be powerful to be great.

強きょう大だいな権けん力りょくを有ゆうするたいこくが存そん在ざいする限かぎり、戦せん争そうは避さけ難がたい。

As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.

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