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ˈneɪ ʃənna·tion
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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
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Princeton's WordNet
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"
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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, domainnation, 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"
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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, domainNation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nationnoun
United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)
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state, res publica, land, commonwealth, country, body politicnationnoun
a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)
"the Shawnee nation"
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state, res publica, land, commonwealth, country, body politic
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nationnoun
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state, commonwealth, realm, nationalitynationnoun
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people, community, population, race
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nation
The nation symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the nation symbol and its characteristic.
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#105 | people | |
#111 | state | |
#210 | united | |
#243 | national | |
#250 | community | |
#253 | area | |
#396 | country | |
#450 | estate | |
#773 | land | |
#910 | domain | |
#971 | countries | |
#987 | kingdom | |
#1297 | population | |
#1333 | earth | |
#1346 | ground | |
#1501 | republic | |
#1581 | race | |
#1849 | nation | |
#2531 | nations | |
#3202 | soil | |
#3617 | province | |
#3650 | democracy | |
#4285 | ethnic | |
#4754 | acres | |
#5651 | commonwealth | |
#7374 | tribe | |
#7402 | farming | |
#7958 | homeland | |
#8788 | realm | |
#31344 | nationalities | |
#71211 | ummah | |
#84632 | nationhood | |
#125335 | umma | |
#125475 | demesne | |
#155333 | nacion |
How to use nation in a sentence?
We are strong, prosperous and an orderly nation, and such a nation must have a lawful system of immigration.
Surely one thing we have learned from these difficult years is that no nation has a monopoly on wisdom, we also have learned that no great nation, and no great group of nations, can view the problems of its own community in isolation.
I believe my work right now should not be in our nation's capitol but here at home in California, and in states around the country where we can make a difference.
Our criminal justice system is fundamentally broken: Criminals are now targeting law enforcement officers nationwide without fear, as more and more law enforcement officers are either being killed, shot or attacked on our streets, the nation will get to know these heroes.
This prosecution demonstrates the federal law enforcement community's commitment to safeguarding our nation's military secrets by keeping America's critical technology from falling into the wrong hands.
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