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Definition of Five Nations
1. Noun. A league of Iroquois tribes including originally the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca (the Five Nations); after 1722 they were joined by the Tuscarora (the Six Nations).
Definition of Five Nations
1. Proper noun. (rugby union) an annual rugby union tournament between the nations of France, England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, the predecessor to the Six Nations tournament. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Five Nations
Literary usage of Five Nations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1812)
"... and to fend them home without delay ; for if the five nations ... mutual
endeavours : the French who are the brethren and friends of the five nations, ..."
2. Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania: From the Organization to by Pennsylvania Provincial Council (1840)
"We became as One People & hope always to continue the same ; And as often as the
five Nations renewed their Leagues with our great & gond friends, ..."
3. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century by Herbert Levi Osgood (1907)
"emment of what had occurred and also that the French were encroaching on the Five
Nations as fast as they could. He insisted that forts should be built on ..."
4. Catalogue of the American Library of the Late Mr. George Brinley: Of by George Brinley, James Hammond Trumbull (1880)
"... of THE Five Nations | belonging to the Province of New York and of | the LAKES
near which the Nations of FAR INDIANS | live with part of CANADA taken ..."
5. English Colonies in America by John Andrew Doyle (1907)
"upper waters of the Hudson and the Canadian lakes must be secured by a line of
forts; above all the English must assume towards the Five Nations a constant ..."
6. Francis Parkman's Works by Francis Parkman (1906)
"THE Iroquois, or Five Nations, sometimes called Six Nations after the ...
Nevertheless, the Five Nations were still strong enough in their ancient abodes to ..."
7. History of New England by John Gorham Palfrey, Francis Winthrop Palfrey (1875)
"1 Iroquois was the collective name given by the French to those tribes of Indians
which, called by the English the Five Nations, acted from this time ..."
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