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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"
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Learn the meaning of nation as a country or a group of people with common language, traditions, and history. See how to use nation in different contexts and collocations with examples from the Cambridge Dictionary.
nation, n. (14c) 1. A large group of people having a common origin, language, tradition, and usage constitutes a political entity. • When a nation is coincident with a state, the term nation-state is often used.... ... 2. A community of people inhabiting a defined territory and organized under an independent government; a sovereign ...
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. Developing nations need affordable access to drugs and medication.
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.
Learn the meaning of nation as a country, a people, or a tribe, with synonyms, pronunciation, and usage examples. Compare nation with related words like state, country, and race.
n. 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.
