nation

Plural

nations

1. 1.A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.

   • The Roma are a nation without a country.
   • Did Pinterest create a culture of do-it-yourselfers, or did the DIY nation create Pinterest? The answer may not be certain, but we do know that a lot of customers love to do things on their own.

2. 2.A sovereign state; (loosely, metonymic, proscribed) a country.

   • Though legally single nations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups.

3. 3.In North America, an Indigenous people with federal and/or state recognition as such and (often also) their federally recognized territory.

   • The term Navajo Nation refers both to the people and to their territory.
   • The Choctaw Nation is the third-largest federally recognized tribe in the United States and the second-largest Indian reservation in area.

Overall

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By learning goal

Everyday conversation

Common

General reading & writing

Very common

Academic

Common

Literature

Rare

Synonyms

• country
• land
• state

Word family

• national