Nation (Noun)
Meaning 1
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".
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 2
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".
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 3
United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911).
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Nouns denoting people.
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Meaning 4
A federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes); "the Shawnee nation".
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.