nation

Plural: nations

Noun

• A large group of people sharing territory, history, and government.
• a politically organized body of people under a single government
  • "African nations"
  • "students who had come to the nation's capitol"
• the people who live in a nation or country
  • "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"
  • "the news was announced to the nation"
• United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)
• a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)
  • "the Shawnee nation"
• A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
• A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
• A community united by some trait (especially an interest) but not historically constituted.
• A sovereign state; (loosely, metonymic, proscribed) a country.
• An association of students based on the birthplace or ethnicity of its members.
• A great number; a great deal.
• In North America, an Indigenous people and their federally recognized territory.
• Damnation.

Adv

• Extremely, very.

Examples

• Forming a triple word score seemed like declaring a new nation on the Scrabble board.
• Once widespread across Europe in medieval times, nations are now largely restricted to the ancient universities of Sweden and Finland.
• pre-Columbian nations
• The Choctaw Nation is the third-largest federally recognized tribe in the United States and the second-largest Indian reservation in area.
• the Dallas Cowboys nation
• The Roma are a nation without a country.
• Though legally single nations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups.

Synonyms

body politic, Carry Amelia Moore Nation, Carry Nation, commonwealth, country, land, res publica, state, student nation

Related Words

antenatal, country, culture, ethnicity, homeland, innate, nascent, natal, native, nativism, nativity, nativization, natural, naturalism, nature, naturism, people, prenatal, race, society, state