What does Nation mean?
Definitions for Nation
ˈneɪ ʃənna·tion
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Princeton's WordNet
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"
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"
Nation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nationnoun
United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)
nationnoun
a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)
"the Shawnee nation"
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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.
Webster Dictionary
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
Nationnoun
the body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own
Nationnoun
family; lineage
Nationnoun
one of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe
Nationnoun
one of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity
Nationnoun
a great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs
Freebase
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
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
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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Etymology and Origins
Nation
An Americanism for “damnation.”
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Nation' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2338
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Nation' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3511
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Rank popularity for the word 'Nation' in Nouns Frequency: #562
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Nation in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Nation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of Nation in a Sentence
The future of our nation rests in the education of our children, so, this is actually the battlefield of today…this is my service now.
This is only 24 hours everything is so fragile, but I pray that we should continue this process. And if we will be united, we will win, no doubt. Not win by military means, but we will launch the political dialogue, bring peace, bring stability to my nation, to the continent and to the whole world.
John McCain kept reciting to me names of dictators during that speech because John McCain knew more than any of us what we were facing as a nation, John McCain understood it, john McCain knew because John McCain knew this man more than any of us did.
Get us out of there and get us our own nation back. That's what I say, (I'm) just fed up with all the money that they give to the EU when we can spend it here. I want out.
We need to better understand the ability of our nation’s hospitals to save lives in times of crisis.
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