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Meaning of nation

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  nation
      n 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" [syn: {state}, {nation}, {country},
           {land}, {commonwealth}, {res publica}, {body politic}]
      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" [syn: {nation},
         {land}, {country}]
      3: United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed
         bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911) [syn: {Nation},
         {Carry Nation}, {Carry Amelia Moore Nation}]
      4: a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes);
         "the Shawnee nation"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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