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Nation n. [
state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic] 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"
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Nation n. [
nation, land, country] 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"
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Nation n. [
Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation] United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)
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Nation n. [
nation] a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes); "the Shawnee nation"
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