たいこく
Taikoku
大国 (Taikoku) is a Japanese noun meaning “large country, major nation, great power, province of the highest rank (ritsuryō system)”.
Meanings
- noun, noun suffixlarge country; major nation; great power
- nounprovince of the highest rank (ritsuryō system)
Examples
大国は小国に干渉すべきではない。
The big nations should not interfere with the smaller nations.
その小国は隣の大国に併合された。
The small country was annexed to its larger neighbor.
国が偉大であるには必ずしも大国である必要はない。
A nation need not necessarily be powerful to be great.
Sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).