Definition of nation in English:

noun

• 1A large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.

  ‘the world's leading industrialized nations’

  More example sentences

  • ‘We cannot allow ourselves to be dependent on other nations, history has taught us that.’
  • ‘The sooner we can distance ourselves from these artificial things known as nations the better.’
  • ‘We are after all talking about the richest, most powerful nation on Earth.’
  • ‘We all know that the United States became the wealthiest nation on earth.’
  • ‘We, the richest, most powerful nation on the planet, could solve our social problems in a heartbeat.’
  • ‘Critics acknowledge that some Western European nations have state religions.’
  • ‘Could the search for medicinal plants help keep the forests of this African island nation intact?’
  • ‘Thousands of plants and animals on the African island nation of Madagascar are found nowhere else in the world.’
  • ‘Developing nations do not have the resources to accomplish this on their own.’
  • ‘Most other industrialized nations privately agree they are necessary but are loath to step forward and be counted.’
  • ‘Even other advanced industrialized nations don't compare with the U.S. in this flexibility.’
  • ‘Developed nations across the globe have stockpiled smallpox vaccines.’
  • ‘The leading industrialised nations need to embark upon emergency transition strategy to renewable energy.’
  • ‘We are an Army at war, serving a nation at war.’
  • ‘In fact, you could argue that sanctions make rogue nations more hostile and more dangerous.’
  • ‘The surge of nationalistic solidarity sweeping the nation led his neighbors to strike their regionalist colors.’
  • ‘For the first time in financial history, a major debtor nation owes its debt in its own currency.’
  • ‘But the fledgling nation is facing a range of challenges.’
  • ‘The World War II memorial was dedicated this weekend in our nation's capital.’
  • ‘But how did we become the most powerful and radical nation on the planet?’
  • ‘What was it Napoleon said about the British being a nation of shopkeepers?’

  Synonyms

  country, state, land, sovereign state, nation state, kingdom, empire, republic, confederation, federation, commonwealth, power, superpower, polity, domain

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  1. 1.1A North American Indian people or confederation of peoples.
     Synonyms

     ethnic group, ethnic minority, tribe, clan, race, nation

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