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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"
: 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.
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.
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 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.
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. 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.
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.
