nation

Noun

• a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)
  • the Shawnee nation
    

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

• 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
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Nation , Carry Nation , Carry Amelia Moore Nation , land , country , state , commonwealth , res publica , body politic