nation
a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own: The president spoke to the nation about the new tax.
the territory or country itself: the nations of Central America.
a member tribe of an American Indian confederation.
an aggregation of persons of the same ethnic family, often speaking the same language or cognate languages.
Origin of nation
1synonym study For nation
Other words for nation
Other words from nation
- na·tion·hood, noun
- na·tion·less, adjective
- in·ter·na·tion, adjective
- min·i·na·tion, noun
- su·per·na·tion, noun
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Other definitions for Nation (2 of 2)
Carry or Carrie (Amelia Moore), 1846–1911, U.S. temperance leader.
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How to use nation in a sentence
As a whole, the US is currently 11th worldwide and fifth among developed nations for Covid-19 deaths.
Trump says US Covid-19 deaths would be low if you excluded blue states. That’s wrong. | German Lopez | September 17, 2020 | VoxThe region’s nations have all had their eyes on the prize since the discovery of gas there a few years ago.
Butterfly Effect: The Next U.S.-Russia Conflict Theater Could be the Mediterranean | Charu Kasturi | September 17, 2020 | OzyTheir decisions will almost inevitably make the nation more divided, with those worst off relegated to a nightmare future in which they are left to fend for themselves.
Climate Change Will Force a New American Migration | by Abrahm Lustgarten, photography by Meridith Kohut | September 15, 2020 | ProPublicaAs a nation, we became inured to a national death toll that has only recently dropped below a thousand people a day.
America Is About to Lose Its 200,000th Life to Coronavirus. How Many More Have to Die? | by Stephen Engelberg | September 14, 2020 | ProPublicaA downtown federal jail now has one of the steepest numbers of active cases in any federal prison facility in the nation.
Morning Report: Downtown Jail Outbreak Goes From Bad to Worse | Voice of San Diego | September 11, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
Congress is now 92 percent Christian, resembling more to a papal enclave than our religiously diverse nation.
If Congress accurately reflected our nation on the basis of race, about 63 percent would be white, not 80 percent.
They carved a refuge out of the wilderness and then, in 200 years, built it into the most powerful nation on earth.
The television networks interrupt their broadcasts to take the nation directly to Selma.
Dr. King Goes to Hollywood: The Flawed History of ‘Selma’ | Gary May | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd besides, as a nation, we hold this truth to be self-evident: resolutions are made to be broken.
My son,” said Grabantak one evening to Chingatok, “if we are henceforth to live in peace, why not unite and become one nation?
The Giant of the North | R.M. BallantyneHe could not tell what I meant by secrets of state, where an enemy or some rival nation were not in the case.
Gulliver's Travels | Jonathan SwiftFor the first time in his experience the Corsican had to meet the forces of a nation and not of a government.
Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-PattisonGourges fitted out three vessels and 150 soldiers at his own expense to revenge their death, and repair the honor of his nation.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellHe made a violent assault against the nation of his enemies, and in the descent he destroyed the adversaries.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | Various
British Dictionary definitions for nation
/ (ˈneɪʃən) /
an aggregation of people or peoples of one or more cultures, races, etc, organized into a single state: the Australian nation
a community of persons not constituting a state but bound by common descent, language, history, etc: the French-Canadian nation
a federation of tribes, esp American Indians
the territory occupied by such a federation
Origin of nation
1Derived forms of nation
- nationhood, noun
- nationless, adjective
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