1. (noun)state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic a politically organized body of people under a singlegovernment "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. (noun)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. (noun)Nation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)