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Definition of Nation

1. Noun. A politically organized body of people under a single government. "An industrialized land"

2. Noun. The people who live in a nation or country. "The whole country worshipped him"

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

4. Noun. A federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes). "The Shawnee nation"

Definition of Nation

1. n. A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock.

Definition of Nation

1. a politically organized people who share a territory, customs, and history [n -S]

Medical Definition of Nation

1. 1. A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock. "All nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues." (Rev. Vii. 9) 2. The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own. "A nation is the unity of a people." (Coleridge) "Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation." (F. S. Key) 3. Family; lineage. 4. One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe. One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity. 5. A great number; a great deal; by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs. Five nations. See Five. Law of nations. See International law, under International, and Law. Synonym: people, race. See People. Origin: F. Nation, L. Natio nation, race, orig, a being born, fr. Natus, p.p. Of nasci, to be born, for gnatus, gnaci, from the same root as E. Kin. 44. See Kin kindred, and cf. Cognate, Natal, Native. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nation

Nathaniel Currier Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathan Bailey Nathan Birnbaum Nathan Hale natheless nathemo nathless natica Naticidae

naticoid natiform natiform skull natimortality nation (current term) nation (current term) national nationalisation nationalise nationalised

nationalises nationalising nationalism nationalisms nationalist nationalistic nationalists Nationalist China nationalist leader nationalities

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