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

“He would do a very good job,” Trump said of Sharaa, as the two leaders sat beside each other at a North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Turkey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Leaders still want to preserve the existing North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Tuesday’s attack comes a day before Sharaa is scheduled to meet with President Trump during a gathering of leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Turkey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to ask Western countries to send more of their own scarce supply of interceptors when he attends the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Ankara this week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 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 Corwin, Edward Samuel