1 [C] a country considered as a group of people with the same language, culture and history, who live in a particular area under one government:
an independent nation * the African nations
2 [sing.] all the people in a country:
The entire nation, it seemed, was watching TV.
nationhood noun [U]:
Citizenship is about the sense of nationhood.
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