Definitions for nation
ˈneɪ ʃənna·tion

Princeton's WordNet(3.50 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic(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"

2. nation, land, country(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"

3. Nation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation(noun)

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

4. nation(noun)

   a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)

   "the Shawnee nation"

Webster Dictionary(3.75 / 4 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Nation(noun)

   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. Nation(noun)

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

3. Nation(noun)

   family; lineage

4. Nation(noun)

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

5. Nation(noun)

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

6. Nation(noun)

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

Freebase(4.29 / 14 votes)Rate this definition:

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(2.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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  

Suggested Resources(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

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(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Nation

   An Americanism for “damnation.”

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

2. Tonian

How to pronounce nation?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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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. Keenan Reynolds:

   It definitely kind of reminds you of why you're really here, the bigger commitment that you've made to serve your country and the evil that we're out to protect [against], so I think it's kind of a centering thing. It's very unfortunate that these events happen and happen so often, but, at the same time, we're grooming ourselves, we're being trained to go out and be leaders of a military that protects our nation in those types of incidents.

2. Robert Smith:

   So much of our political discourse and dysfunction has been stoked through cultural and racial flashpoints, whether it's public education, police/community relations, employment or voting -- all current political battles fuel cultural wars that impact these tendencies. We are failing our nation's youth along socio-economic lines, but also failing to reinforce the promises of a democratic society.

3. Kamala Harris:

   Lynching is a reprehensible stain on this nation's history, as is The President. We'll never erase the pain and trauma of lynching, and to invoke that torture to whitewash your own corruption is disgraceful.

4. Anuj Somany:

   If a product is really good for the health of the population , then neither it requires big bang publicity or advice/ promotion from a well known face person of the nation nor its benefits are needed to be advocated on numerous occasions.

5. Van Jones:

   He lost a lot of African Americans, by the tens of millions, when he said America is not a racist nation.

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