Main entry: land, nation, country
Definition: the people who live in a nation or country
Usage: a statement that sums up the nation's mood; the news was announced to the nation; the whole country worshipped him
Main entry: res publica, state, country, commonwealth, body politic, nation, land
Definition: a politically organized body of people under a single government
Usage: the state has elected a new president; African nations; students who had come to the nation's capitol; the country's largest manufacturer; an industrialized land
Main entry: nation
Definition: a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)
Usage: the Shawnee nation
Main entry: Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation, Carry Nation
Definition: United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)