1. A politically organized body of people under a single government
   "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol";
   - state, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic
    
2. The people who live in a nation or country
   "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation";
   - land, country
    
3. A federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)
   "the Shawnee nation"

1. United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)
   - Carrie Nation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation

Derived forms: nations, Nations

Type of: confederacy, confederation, dry, federation, people, political entity, political unit, prohibitionist

Encyclopedia: Nation, Nationality and People of Ethiopia