North Atlantic Treaty Organization

British  

noun

1. the full name of NATO

---

North Atlantic Treaty Organization Cultural  

1. An international organization, begun in 1949. The members have pledged to settle disputes among themselves peacefully and to defend one another against outside aggressors. The founding members of NATO are Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United States. Greece, Spain, Turkey, and Germany became members later. France was a founding member, but withdrew from NATO's military command in 1967. The Warsaw Pact was signed by the Soviet Union and its allies largely in response to the formation of NATO. Since the end of the cold war, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland have joined.

---

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Turkey has the largest economy of any Middle East nation and is a member of the G-20 and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Almost every week this summer brought new reports of drone incursions over the alliance’s eastern frontier and North Atlantic Treaty Organization jets mobilized to shoot them down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

“We’ve already got the nuclear material, because it’s so far underground,” Trump said during July’s summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Asia lacks a single alliance like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to bind U.S. partners together.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

The Council, desiring to simplify the structure of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in order to make it more effective, asked the Council Deputies to initiate appropriate action.

From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Edward Samuel Corwin