What does nation mean?

Definitions for nation
ˈneɪ ʃənna·tion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politicnoun

    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. nation, land, countrynoun

    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 Nationnoun

    United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)

  4. nationnoun

    a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)

    "the Shawnee nation"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. NATIONnoun

    A people distinguished from another people; generally by their language, original, or government.

    Etymology: nation, Fr. natio, Latin.

    If Edward III. had prospered in his French wars, and peopled with English the towns which he won, as he began at Calais driving out the French, his successors holding the same course, would have filled all France with our nation. Ral.

    A nation properly signifies a great number of families derived from the same blood, born in the same country, and living under the same government. William Temple.

Wikipedia

  1. Nation

    A nation is a community of people formed on the basis of a combination of shared features such as language, history, ethnicity, culture and/or society. A nation is thus the collective identity of a group of people understood as defined by those features. Some nations are equated with ethnic groups (see ethnic nationalism) and some are equated with affiliation to a social and political constitution (see civic nationalism and multiculturalism). A nation is generally more overtly political than an ethnic group. A nation has also been defined as a cultural-political community that has become conscious of its autonomy, unity and particular interests.The consensus among scholars is that nations are socially constructed and historically contingent. Throughout history, people have had an attachment to their kin group and traditions, territorial authorities and their homeland, but nationalism – the belief that state and nation should align as a nation state – did not become a prominent ideology until the end of the 18th century. There are three notable perspectives on how nations developed. Primordialism (perennialism), which reflects popular conceptions of nationalism but has largely fallen out of favour among academics, proposes that there have always been nations and that nationalism is a natural phenomenon. Ethnosymbolism explains nationalism as a dynamic, evolving phenomenon and stresses the importance of symbols, myths and traditions in the development of nations and nationalism. Modernization theory, which has superseded primordialism as the dominant explanation of nationalism, adopts a constructivist approach and proposes that nationalism emerged due to processes of modernization, such as industrialization, urbanization, and mass education, which made national consciousness possible.Proponents of modernization theory describe nations as "imagined communities", a term coined by Benedict Anderson. A nation is an imagined community in the sense that the material conditions exist for imagining extended and shared connections and that it is objectively impersonal, even if each individual in the nation experiences themselves as subjectively part of an embodied unity with others. For the most part, members of a nation remain strangers to each other and will likely never meet. Nationalism is consequently seen an "invented tradition" in which shared sentiment provides a form of collective identity and binds individuals together in political solidarity. A nation's foundational "story" may be built around a combination of ethnic attributes, values and principles, and may be closely connected to narratives of belonging.

ChatGPT

  1. nation

    A nation is a large group of people who share common cultural, ethnic, or historical ties, often living within a specific geographical territory. This group usually shares a common language, traditions, history, or values. In some cases, it's referred to as a sovereign political entity also known as a country or state. However, it's important to note that in this definition, a nation doesn't necessarily correlate with a specific political boundary or government, as there can be nations without states and nations that span multiple states.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Nationnoun

    a part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock

  2. Nationnoun

    the body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own

  3. Nationnoun

    family; lineage

  4. Nationnoun

    one of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe

  5. Nationnoun

    one of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity

  6. Nationnoun

    a great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs

Wikidata

  1. Nation

    Nation may refer to a community of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, descent, or history. However, it can also refer to people who share a common territory and government irrespective of their ethnic make-up; that is, a nation state. The word nation can more specifically refer to people of North American Indians. Nation carries varying meanings, and the connotation of the term has changed over time. The idea of a nation is a social reality that we have used to organize history. As Benedict Anderson argues in his book Imagined Communities, the nation is an imagined political community. It is imagined because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow-members, yet in the minds of each lives the image of their communion. Furthermore, it is a community because regardless of the actual inequality or exploitation that may exist in it, the nation is always conceived as a deep, horizontal comradeship. This is not to say that the concept is false, rather it was simply imaged and created by humans, and it is not something that necessarily exists in nature.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Nation

    nā′shun, n. a body of people born of the same stock: the people inhabiting the same country, or under the same government: a race: a great number: a division of students in a university for voting purposes at Aberdeen and Glasgow. [Fr.,—L. nation-em,—nasci, natus, to be born.]

Editors Contribution

  1. nation

    A group of people with a unity government and unity governmental structure and legislation.

    The nation agreed on a national unity government.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 3, 2020  


  2. nationnoun

    National Army; a accurate numerical order like saints in art with documentary of relation and completion.

    I am the God imagination in control of my nation. Just like Jesus is the Rock nation, Allah with the Nation of Islam and John revealing the Israel Nation.

    Etymology: Population of a specific representation


    Submitted by Tony_Elyon on February 7, 2024  

Suggested Resources

  1. nation

    The nation symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the nation symbol and its characteristic.

Etymology and Origins

  1. Nation

    An Americanism for “damnation.”

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. NATION

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Nation is ranked #4940 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Nation surname appeared 7,125 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 2 would have the surname Nation.

    79.1% or 5,639 total occurrences were White.
    13.2% or 941 total occurrences were Black.
    2.4% or 171 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.3% or 164 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    1.5% or 110 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    1.4% or 100 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'nation' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2338

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'nation' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3511

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'nation' in Nouns Frequency: #562

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of nation in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of nation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of nation in a Sentence

  1. Terry Pell:

    We are seeking the end of compulsory union dues across the nation on the basis of the free speech rights guaranteed by the First Amendment.

  2. Horace Cooper:

    While it's more centrist than the nation at large, increasingly there is a working-class Black vote, a Black male vote (reflecting a growing gender-gap) and a Black evangelical vote.These subsets are increasingly acting and voting the way that their white counterparts do, when combined with the centrism of Blacks, the monolith of 90% of Blacks voting the same way that we saw in 2008 is over. In fact, every year since then the vote has split more and more. This change is largely a function of the disdain that Blacks have for the progressive agenda.

  3. Jennifer Sclafani:

    These expressions remind me of what [ linguist George ] Lakoff refers to as the' Strict Father' model of government, in which the nation is a family and the president is seen as the parent, conservatives, Lakoff argues, adopt a' strict father' view of the nation-as-family, in which the president-parent is the authoritarian and disciplinarian, but also the protector of the family.

  4. Ashtar Ausaf Ali:

    They should know that the nation and the legal community are united against them.

  5. Space Operations Gen. John Raymond:

    Similar activities in any other domain would be interpreted as potentially threatening behavior, this is unusual and disturbing behavior and has the potential to create a dangerous situation in space. The United States finds these recent activities to be concerning and do not reflect the behavior of a responsible spacefaring nation.

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