Nation (novel) definition

(1) 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"

(2) 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"

(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)