Found 3 items, similar to Nation.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: nation bangsa
English → English (WordNet) Definition: nation nation n 1: a politically organized body of people under a single government; “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” [syn: 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”; “the whole country worshipped him” [syn: land, country, a people] 3: a federation of tribes (especially native American tribes); “the Shawnee nation” 4: United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911) [syn: Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Nation Nation \Na"tion\, n. [F. nation, L. natio nation, race, orig., a being born, fr. natus, p. p. of nasci, to be born, for gnatus, gnasci, from the same root as E. kin. [root]44. See Kin kindred, and cf. Cognate, Natal, Native.] 1. (Ethnol.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock. [1913 Webster] All nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues. --Rev. vii. 9. [1913 Webster] 2. The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own. [1913 Webster] A nation is the unity of a people. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster] Praise the power that hath made and preserved us a nation. --F. S. Key. [1913 Webster] 3. Family; lineage. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 4. (a) One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe. (b) (Scotch Universities) One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity. [1913 Webster] 5. A great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs. --Sterne. [1913 Webster] Five nations. See under Five. Law of nations. See International law, under International, and Law. [1913 Webster] Syn: people; race. See People. [1913 Webster]