Definitions for Nation
ˈneɪ ʃənna·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.5 / 2 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:3.8 / 4 votes

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

WikidataRate this definition:4.3 / 14 votes

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 DictionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 2 votes

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 ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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  

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   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 Tehorah_Elyon on February 7, 2024  

Suggested ResourcesRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

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 OriginsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Nation

   An Americanism for “damnation.”

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

Matched Categories

1. • Confederation
   • Dry
   • People
   • Political Unit

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

Anagrams for Nation »

1. anoint

How to pronounce Nation?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Nation in sign language?

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. Wolfgang Merkel:

   She is not a great orator, but this calm message to the nation contributed to the confidence of the people : 80 % to 90 % felt she can do it.

2. Sheriff Vic Regalado:

   Veterans are truly this nation’s most valued treasure, james has earned the right to sit back and just enjoy life. Yet through Wounded Veterans of Oklahoma, he continues to sacrifice for the benefit of others who have served this country with honor and pride.

3. Glenn Youngkin:

   Last year, we saw radical politicians say that parents had no right to determine what was being taught in their children's classroom. Well, all of you, and many, many, many others across the Commonwealth of Virginia stood up and said, ‘ Enough. ’ You stood together, you stood together because we all recognized the core truth in our children's education, parents matter. That's what we concluded. ONE OF THE NATION ’S MOST VULNERABLE DEMOCRATS COZIES UP TO BIDEN FOR PENNSYLVANIA RALLY Youngkin recounted some of his legislative achievements, such as Senate Bill 656, which stated that if school materials are sexually explicit and parents do n’t agree with them, they can request an alternative set of materials. He cautioned though that, despite some progress, the fight against school boards and teachers unions was not over.

4. Julie Montagu:

   I think it's going to be one big street party across the nation, it's a four-day party and I think everybody knows that this is the last big jubilee and people are going to be celebrating.

5. Mike Pence:

   As we gather tonight, we must recognize that we've only come to the end of the beginning. Standing here in the first days of a post-Roe America, we must resolve that we will not rest, we will not relent until the sanctity of life is restored in the law of every state in the nation.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Nation
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Nation
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Nation
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Nation
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Nation
8. ^ Etymology and Origins
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/54657/pg54657-images.html#:~:text=Nation
9. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html