'Nation' definitions:
Definition of 'nation'
From: WordNet
noun
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" [syn: state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic]
noun
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" [syn: nation, land, country]
noun
United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911) [syn: Nation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation]
noun
A federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes); "the Shawnee nation"
Definition of 'Nation'
From: GCIDE
- Nation \Na"tion\, n. [F. nation, L. natio nation, race, orig., a being born, fr. natus, p. p. of nasci, to be born, for gnatus, gnasci, from the same root as E. kin. [root]44. See Kin kindred, and cf. Cognate, Natal, Native.]
- 1. (Ethnol.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock. [1913 Webster]
- All nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues. --Rev. vii. 9. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own. [1913 Webster]
- A nation is the unity of a people. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]
- Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation. --F. S. Key. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Family; lineage. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (a) One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe. (b) (Scotch Universities) One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs. --Sterne. [1913 Webster]
- Five nations. See under Five.
- Law of nations. See International law, under International, and Law. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: people; race. See People. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'nation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ally,
- animal kingdom,
- archduchy,
- archdukedom,
- blood,
- body politic,
- breed,
- brood,
- buffer state,
- captive nation,
- chieftaincy,
- chieftainry,
- citizenry,
- city-state,
- clan,
- class,
- colony,
- common man,
- commonweal,
- commonwealth,
- community,
- community at large,
- constituency,
- country,
- county,
- cultural community,
- culture,
- deme,
- domain,
- dominion,
- duchy,
- dukedom,
- dwellers,
- earldom,
- empery,
- empire,
- estate,
- ethnic group,
- everybody,
- Everyman,
- everyman,
- everyone,
- everywoman,
- family,
- folk,
- folks,
- free city,
- general public,
- gens,
- gentry,
- grand duchy,
- habitancy,
- house,
- inhabitants,
- John Doe,
- kind,
- kingdom,
- land,
- line,
- lineage,
- linguistic community,
- mandant,
- mandate,
- mandated territory,
- mandatee,
- mandatory,
- matriclan,
- men,
- nationality,
- order,
- patriclan,
- people,
- people at large,
- people in general,
- persons,
- phratry,
- phyle,
- plant kingdom,
- polis,
- polity,
- populace,
- population,
- possession,
- power,
- principality,
- principate,
- protectorate,
- province,
- Public,
- public,
- puppet government,
- puppet regime,
- race,
- realm,
- republic,
- satellite,
- seneschalty,
- sept,
- settlement,
- society,
- sovereign nation,
- species,
- speech community,
- state,
- stem,
- stirps,
- stock,
- strain,
- sultanate,
- superpower,
- territory,
- toparchia,
- toparchy,
- totem,
- tribe,
- whole people,
- world,
- you and me
Words containing 'Nation'
- National,
- Nationalism,
- Nationalities,
- Nationality,
- Nationalization,
- Nationalized,
- Nationalizing,
- Nationally,
- Nationalness,
- nationalize,
- Comity of nations,
- Five nations,
- Law of nations,
- Lost Nation,
- Martime nations,
- National City,
- National Park,
- National anthem,
- National bank,
- National flag,
- National guard,
- National salute,
- Six Nations,
- across the nation,
- african nation,
- asian nation,
- balkan nation,
- carry nation,
- commonwealth of nations,
- desire of all nations,
- european nation,
- grand national,
- islam nation,
- league of nations,
- nation of islam,
- national assembly,
- national assistance,
- national capital,
- national censorship,
- national debt,
- national holiday,
- national income,
- national insurance,
- national leader,
- national monument,
- national service,
- national socialism,
- national socialist,
- national trust,
- rogue nation,
- scandinavian nation,
- united nations,
- Higher National Diploma,
- Lost Nation, IA,
- National City, CA,
- National Football Conference,
- National Park, NJ,
- acadia national park,
- air national guard,
- arches national park,
- army national guard,
- badlands national park,
- biscayne national park,
- canyonlands national park,
- central american nation,
- denali national park,
- everglades national park,
- gross national product,
- haleakala national park,
- iraqi national congress,
- katmai national park,
- most-favored-nation,
- national academy of sciences,
- national association of realtors,
- national debt ceiling,
- national guard bureau,
- national institute of justice,
- national institutes of health,
- national intelligence community,
- national liberation army,
- national library of medicine,
- national park service,
- national reconnaissance office,
- national rifle association,
- national science foundation,
- national security agency,
- national security council,
- national trading policy,
- national volunteers association,
- national weather service,
- north american nation,
- olympic national park,
- palestine national authority,
- palestinian national authority,
- platt national park,
- redwood national park,
- royal national eisteddfod,
- sequoia national park,
- serengeti national park,
- shenandoah national park,
- south american nation,
- united nations agency,
- united nations day,
- united nations secretariat,
- voyageurs national park,
- yellowstone national park,
- yosemite national park,
- zion national park,
- Federal National Mortgage Association,
- Most-favored-nation clause,
- association of southeast asian nations,
- big bend national park,
- bryce canyon national park,
- capitol reef national park,
- carlsbad caverns national park,
- carry amelia moore nation,
- channel islands national park,
- crater lake national park,
- gates of the arctic national park,
- grand canyon national park,
- grand teton national park,
- guadalupe mountains national park,
- hawaii volcanoes national park,
- hot springs national park,
- irish national liberation army,
- isle royal national park,
- kenai fjords national park,
- kings canyon national park,
- kobuk valley national park,
- lake clark national park,
- lassen volcanic national park,
- mammoth cave national park,
- mesa verde national park,
- mount ranier national park,
- national aeronautics and space administration,
- national archives and records administration,
- national baseball hall of fame,
- national climatic data center,
- national institute of standards and technology,
- national labor relations board,
- national liberation front of corsica,
- national oceanic and atmospheric administration,
- national technical information service,
- north cascades national park,
- petrified forest national park,
- real gross national product,
- rocky mountain national park,
- u.s. national library of medicine,
- united nations children's fund,
- virgin islands national park,
- wind cave national park,
- food and agriculture organization of the united nations,
- great smoky mountains national park,
- national geospatial-intelligence agency,
- national socialist german workers' party,
- theodore roosevelt memorial national park,
- united states national library of medicine,
- national association of securities dealers automated quotations,
- united nations crime prevention and criminal justice,
- united nations educational scientific and cultural organization,
- united nations international children's emergency fund,
- wrangell-st. elias national park,
- united nations office for drug control and crime prevention