Synonyms for nation
ˈneɪ ʃənna·tion

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1. nation

   A community is in general terms the aggregate of persons inhabiting any territory in common and viewed as having common interests; a commonwealth is such a body of persons having a common government, especially a republican government; as, the commonwealth of Massachusetts. A community may be very small; a commonwealth is ordinarily of considerable extent. A people is the aggregate of any public community, either in distinction from their rulers or as including them; a race is a division of mankind in the line of origin and ancestry; the people of the United States includes members of almost every race. The use of people as signifying persons collectively, as in the statement "The hall was full of people," has been severely criticized, but is old and accepted English, and may fitly be classed as idiomatic, and often better than persons, by reason of its collectivism. As Dean Alford suggests, it would make a strange transformation of the old hymn "All people that on earth do dwell" to sing "All persons that on earth do dwell." A state is an organized political community considered in its corporate capacity as "a body politic and corporate;" as, a legislative act is the act of the state; every citizen is entitled to the protection of the state. A nation is an organized political community considered with reference to the persons composing it as having certain definite boundaries, a definite number of citizens, etc. The members of a people are referred to as persons or individuals; the individual members of a state or nation are called citizens or subjects. The population of a country is simply the aggregate of persons residing within its borders, without reference to race, organization, or allegiance; unnaturalized residents form part of the population, but not of the nation, possessing none of the rights and being subject to none of the duties of citizens. In American usage State signifies one commonwealth of the federal union known as the United States. Tribe is now almost wholly applied to rude peoples with very imperfect political organization; as, the Indian tribes; nomadic tribes. Compare MOB.

   Synonyms:
   commonwealth, community, people, population, race, state, tribe

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1. nation

   Synonyms:
   race, people, realm, community, commonwealth, state

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.5 / 2 votes

1. state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politicnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   landed estate, state of matter, body politic, commonwealth, ground, farming, province, res publica, kingdom, solid ground, state, dry land, estate, realm, land, country, soil, area, acres, republic, demesne, earth, democracy, rural area, terra firma, domain

2. nation, land, countrynoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   landed estate, res publica, body politic, commonwealth, ground, rural area, state, area, kingdom, solid ground, dry land, estate, realm, land, country, soil, farming, acres, demesne, earth, terra firma, domain

3. Nation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nationnoun

   United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)

   Synonyms:
   state, res publica, land, commonwealth, country, body politic

4. nationnoun

   a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)

   "the Shawnee nation"

   Synonyms:
   state, res publica, land, commonwealth, country, body politic

Matched Categories

1. • Confederation
   • Dry
   • People
   • Political Unit

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. nationnoun

   Synonyms:
   state, commonwealth, realm, nationality

2. nationnoun

   Synonyms:
   people, community, population, race

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:1.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "nation":

   nación, nations, country, homeland, national, countries, nationhood, umma, state, people, united, ummah, nationalities, ethnic

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1. Andrew Harnik/AP Clyde Lawrence:

   Since both our pay and theirs is a share of the show’s profits, we should be true partners aligned in our incentives — keep costs low while ensuring the best fan experience, but with Live Nation not only acting as the promoter but also the owner and operator of the venue, it seriously complicates these incentives.

2. Mike Pompeo:

   No nation has done more to sustain the death and daily misery of ordinary Venezuelans, including Venezuela's military and their families, than the communists in Havana.

3. Rick Scott:

   President Joe Biden and Washington Democrats are leading our nation down an unsustainable path with their failed economic policies and reckless spending. Americans deserve better, the Democrats’ spending addiction has created an inflation crisis and their solution is to spend more and tax more.

4. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan:

   As soon as such a claim is proved, the nobility of our nation requires [me] to do this.

5. Arturo Vargas:

   We are excited to have Dr. Ben Carson join us as one of the leading candidates for the White House in 2016 and look forward to hearing him engage the nation's largest gathering of Latino policy-makers on the issues most important to the Latino community today.