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Nat

1 American  
[nat] / næt /

noun

  1. a male given name, form of Nathan or Nathaniel.


nat. 2 American  

abbreviation

  1. national.

  2. native.

  3. natural.

  4. naturalist.


Nat 1 British  
/ næt /

noun

  1. a member or supporter of the Scottish National Party

  2. a member of the National Party

  3. a Member of Parliament for the National Party

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

nat. 2 British  

abbreviation

  1. national

  2. natural

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"If it can be done for GCSEs, I simply don't understand why it can't be done for Nat 5," says Romi's mum, Gael Gordon.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

The release last month represented the culmination of a year-plus of work led by Wang and Nat Friedman, head of Meta’s AI-products division.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

“The independence question is very important,” Nat Purser, director of U.S. policy at the AI Verification and Evaluation Research Institute, told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026

Nat and Nik say they would have paid anything to have a family, but that the total £23,000 bill means that they did have to make "sacrifices".

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Father picked up Nat and carried him out on the wharf.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

Dingo, or wild dog of Australia, 1/10 nat. size.

From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions by George John Romanes

Evening-primrose, Œnothĕra, a genus of plants, nat. ord.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar by Various

Hipparchus in his time 168 tooke especiall notice of such as these, Plin. nat. hist. l.

From The Discovery of a World in the Moone Or, A Discovrse Tending To Prove That 'Tis Probable There May Be Another Habitable World In That Planet by John Wilkins

See Naudin in Annal. des sci. nat. ser.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

Eryngium, a genus of plants belonging to the nat. ord.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

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