- a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own: The president spoke to the nation about the new tax.
- the territory or country itself: the nations of Central America.
- a member tribe of an American Indian confederation.
- an aggregation of persons of the same ethnic family, often speaking the same language or cognate languages.
- U.S. temperance leader.
- an aggregation of people or peoples of one or more cultures, races, etc, organized into a single state
- a community of persons not constituting a state but bound by common descent, language, history, etc
- a federation of tribes, esp American Indians
- the territory occupied by such a federation
