Definitions for nation
Overview of noun nation
The noun nation has 4 senses? (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (33) state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic
(a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land")
2. (10) nation, land, country
(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"; "the whole country worshipped him")
3. Nation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation
(United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911))
4. nation
(a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes); "the Shawnee nation")
