Usually means: Community with shared identity, sovereignty.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word nation:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nation, nation, the nation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Nation, nation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Nation, Nation, nation, nation, the-nation: Wordnik
  7. nation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. nation: Wiktionary
  9. nation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. nation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. nation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Nation, nation: Dictionary.com
  13. nation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. nation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. N.A.T.I.O.N, Nation (Bad Wolves album), Nation (Dr. Acula album), Nation (Paris RER), Nation (Sepultura album), Nation (album), Nation (disambiguation), Nation (nightclub), Nation (novel), Nation (political party), Nation (surname), Nation (university), Nation (wrestler), Nation, The Nation (Irish newspaper), The Nation (Malawi), The Nation (Nigeria), The Nation (Pakistan), The Nation (Pakistani newspaper), The Nation (Sri Lanka), The Nation (TV series), The Nation (Thailand), The Nation (U.S. periodical), The Nation (UK weekly), The Nation (magazine), The Nation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Nation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. nation: Rhymezone
  19. Nation (f), nation, nation (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. NATION: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. nation: Free Dictionary
  23. nation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Nation: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. nation: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  3. nation: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. nation, nation: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. nation, the Nation: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (collective) A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
noun:  (by extension, informal, often humorous) A community united by some trait (especially an interest) but not historically constituted.
noun:  (international law, metonymically) A sovereign state; (loosely, metonymically, proscribed) a country.
noun:  (chiefly historical) An association of students based on the birthplace or ethnicity of its members.
noun:  (obsolete) A great number; a great deal.
noun:  In North America, an Indigenous people and their federally recognized territory.
noun:  (rare) Damnation.
adverb:  (rare, dialectal) Extremely, very.
noun:  A surname.

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