Synonyms for nation
ˈneɪ ʃənna·tion

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1. nation

   A community is in general terms the aggregate of persons inhabiting any territory in common and viewed as having common interests; a commonwealth is such a body of persons having a common government, especially a republican government; as, the commonwealth of Massachusetts. A community may be very small; a commonwealth is ordinarily of considerable extent. A people is the aggregate of any public community, either in distinction from their rulers or as including them; a race is a division of mankind in the line of origin and ancestry; the people of the United States includes members of almost every race. The use of people as signifying persons collectively, as in the statement "The hall was full of people," has been severely criticized, but is old and accepted English, and may fitly be classed as idiomatic, and often better than persons, by reason of its collectivism. As Dean Alford suggests, it would make a strange transformation of the old hymn "All people that on earth do dwell" to sing "All persons that on earth do dwell." A state is an organized political community considered in its corporate capacity as "a body politic and corporate;" as, a legislative act is the act of the state; every citizen is entitled to the protection of the state. A nation is an organized political community considered with reference to the persons composing it as having certain definite boundaries, a definite number of citizens, etc. The members of a people are referred to as persons or individuals; the individual members of a state or nation are called citizens or subjects. The population of a country is simply the aggregate of persons residing within its borders, without reference to race, organization, or allegiance; unnaturalized residents form part of the population, but not of the nation, possessing none of the rights and being subject to none of the duties of citizens. In American usage State signifies one commonwealth of the federal union known as the United States. Tribe is now almost wholly applied to rude peoples with very imperfect political organization; as, the Indian tribes; nomadic tribes. Compare MOB.

   Synonyms:
   commonwealth, community, people, population, race, state, tribe

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. nation

   Synonyms:
   race, people, realm, community, commonwealth, state

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1. state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politicnoun

   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:
   landed estate, state of matter, body politic, commonwealth, ground, farming, province, res publica, kingdom, solid ground, state, dry land, estate, realm, land, country, soil, area, acres, republic, demesne, earth, democracy, rural area, terra firma, domain

2. nation, land, countrynoun

   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:
   landed estate, res publica, body politic, commonwealth, ground, rural area, state, area, kingdom, solid ground, dry land, estate, realm, land, country, soil, farming, acres, demesne, earth, terra firma, domain

3. Nation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nationnoun

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

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

4. nationnoun

   a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)

   "the Shawnee nation"

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

Matched Categories

1. • Confederation
   • Dry
   • People
   • Political Unit

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. nationnoun

   Synonyms:
   state, commonwealth, realm, nationality

2. nationnoun

   Synonyms:
   people, community, population, race

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "nation":

   nación, nations, country, homeland, national, countries, nationhood, umma, state, people, united, ummah, nationalities, ethnic

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1. Jackson Lee:

   The real issue is whether and how this nation can come to grips with the legacy of slavery that still infects current society, while we have focused on the social effects of slavery and segregation, its continuing economic implications remain largely ignored by mainstream analysis.

2. Dan Newman:

   She's viewed as thorough, thoughtful, and as close to non-partisan on the issue of national security as is possible in today's politically polarized environment, if it was a different Democrat, it would be easier for some to be dismissive of the questions she's raising, but she's built significant credibility as a trusted voice on national security, so she has to be taken seriously. She's raising two critical issues which will define our debate about torture in the coming months: does it make us safer, and is it something we accept as consistent with our nation's moral code?

3. Franklin D. Roosevelt:

   I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

4. Michael Breen:

   As a veteran I can say I owe my life to our Afghan allies, it's not just interpreters. There are so many people who risked their lives -- children, families -- to keep us safe. And for 20 years American veterans looked our allies in the eyes and made those promises wearing the cloth of the nation.

5. Jake Tapper:

   CNN has learned that the nation's top intelligence officials provided information to President-elect Donald Trump and to President Barack Obama last week about claims of Russian efforts to compromise President-elect Trump.