NATION

• (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"

  synonyms : country , land

• (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"

  synonyms : body politic , commonwealth , country , land , res publica , state

• (noun) a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)

  "the Shawnee nation"

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

  synonyms : carry amelia moore nation , carry nation

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