nation has definitions from the fields of politics,geography,government
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[ noun ] (politics,geography) a politically organized body of people under a single government

Examples

"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"

Used in print

("Editorials"...)

Capable as their minds may be in some directions , these guardians of the nation 's security are incapable of learning , or even of observing .

When one powerful nation strives to emulate the success of another , it is only natural .

(The Christian Science Monitor,...)

This features the marching songs of several nations , recorded as though the various national bands were marching by your reviewing_stand .

(Bonnie Prudden, "The Dancer and the Gymnast"...)

If a nation wished to get a head_start in physical fitness over all other nations , it would start its kindergarten students on a program of gymnastics the day they entered and thus eliminate a large_number of the problems that plague American schools .

If a nation wished to get a head_start in physical fitness over all other nations , it would start its kindergarten students on a program of gymnastics the day they entered and thus eliminate a large_number of the problems that plague American schools .

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[ noun ] the people who live in a nation or country

Examples

"a statement that sums up the nation's mood" "the news was announced to the nation" "the whole country worshipped him"

Used in print

(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

On the one side we have the university professors and their students , trained in Teutonic methods of research , who have sought_out , collected and studied the true products of the oral traditions of the ethnic , regional and occupational groups that make_up this nation .

The folk are simply not homogeneous with_respect_to nation or political attitude .

(LeRoy Fothergill, "Biological Warfare", in Peter...)

America is rapidly becoming a nation that uses processed , precooked and even predigested foods .

(James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)

After Gagarin became the Greatest Man in the World , for a nation that does not believe_in the cult_of_personality or in careerism , Moreland wrote me a letter in which he said : `` I am not interested in how long a bee can live in a vacuum , or how far it can fly .

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[ noun ] (government,geography) the territory occupied by a nation

Synonyms

country state land

Examples

"he returned to the land of his birth" "he visited several European countries"

Used in print

(Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)

And there is no section of the nation more ardent than the South in the cold_war against Communism .

(Robert A. Futterman, The Future of Our Cities....)

Today , according_to land economist Homer_Hoyt , shopping_centers and their associated parking_lots cover some 46000 acres of land , which is almost exactly the total land_area in all the nation 's Central Business_Districts put together .

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

Related terms

dry

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 4222
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[ noun ] (politics,geography) a federation of tribes (especially native American tribes)

Examples

"the Shawnee nation"

Related terms

confederation tribe US

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