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: a community of people composed of one or more nationalities and possessing a more or less defined territory and government. Canada is a nation with a written constitution B. K. Sandwell. c. : a territorial division containing a body of people of one or more nationalities and usually characterized by relatively large size and independent status.
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.
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.
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.
a country, especially when thought of as a large group of people living in one area with their own government, language, traditions, etc.: All the nations of the world will be represented at the conference. The Germans, as a nation, are often thought to be well organized.
Nation Definition. The people of a territory united under a single government; country. A stable, historically developed community of people with a territory, economic life, distinctive culture, and language in common. The territory of a particular Indian people or peoples. The government of a sovereign state.
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) an aggregation of people or peoples of one or more cultures, races, etc, organized into a single state: the Australian nation. 2. (Sociology) a community of persons not constituting a state but bound by common descent, language, history, etc: the French-Canadian nation. 3.
NATION meaning: 1 : a large area of land that is controlled by its own government country; 2 : the people who live in a nation.
Definition of nation noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. nation. noun. /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. The West African nation of Togo has presidential elections this week.
A nation is an individual country considered together with its social and political structures.
