NATIONS - Definition & Meaning for Kids

Meaning 1

Part of speech: Noun

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

Meaning 2

Part of speech: Noun

the people who live in a nation or country

Example: a statement that sums up the nation's mood; the news was announced to the nation; the whole country worshipped him

Meaning 3

Part of speech: Noun

a politically organized body of people under a single government

Example: 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

Meaning 4

Part of speech: Noun

a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)

Example: the Shawnee nation