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- DictionaryNa·tion/ˈnāSH(ə)n/
noun
- 1. a large body of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory: "the world's leading industrialized nations"
nation. noun. /ˈneɪʃn/. /ˈneɪʃn/. [countable] a country considered as a group of people with the same language, culture and history, who live in a particular area under one government. European/Arab/Asian nations.
A nation is a large type of social organization where a collective identity, a national identity, has emerged from a combination of shared features across a given population, such as language, history, ethnicity, culture, territory or society.
6 days ago · 1. an aggregation of people or peoples of one or more cultures, races, etc, organized into a single state. the Australian nation. 2. a community of persons not constituting a state but bound by common descent, language, history, etc. the French-Canadian nation.
A nation is a country and its people. It's also the word used for the Native American tribal federations in the US — the Cherokee Nation, for instance — which have their own governments and territories. Nation comes from the Latin root nat-, which means
Nation definition: a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own. See examples of NATION used in a sentence.
Add to word list. Add to word list. B2. a country or the people living in a country: Asian nations. industrial nations. The entire nation mourned her death. a nation of dog lovers. See also.
Britannica Dictionary definition of NATION. 1. a [count] : a large area of land that is controlled by its own government : country. It's one of the richest/poorest nations in the world. the largest state/province in the nation. industrialized/developing nations. the United Nations.
