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English noun: nation | |||
| 1. | nation (group) a politically organized body of people under a single government | ||
| Samples | 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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | political entity, political unit | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | ally, city state, city-state, commonwealth country, developing country, Dominion, foreign country, great power, major power, power, Reich, renegade state, rogue nation, rogue state, sea power, superpower, suzerain, world power | ||
| Instance hyponym | Eelam, Tamil Eelam | ||
| Part holonym | estate, estate of the realm, the three estates | ||
| 2. | nation (group) the people who live in a nation or country | ||
| Samples | A statement that sums up the nation's mood. The news was announced to the nation. The whole country worshipped him. | ||
| Synonyms | country, land | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | people | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | British, British people, Brits, Dutch, Dutch people, English, English people, French, French people, Irish, Irish people, Spanish, Spanish people, Swiss, Swiss people | ||
| Member holonym | national, subject | ||
| 3. | Nation (person) United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911) | ||
| Synonyms | Carry Amelia Moore Nation, Carry Nation | ||
| Instance hypernym | dry, prohibitionist | ||
| 4. | nation (group) a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes) | ||
| Samples | The Shawnee nation. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | confederacy, confederation, federation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | federation of tribes, tribe | ||
| Domain region | America, the States, U.S., U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA | ||
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