- state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic - 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"
--1 is a kind of political unit
--1 has parts: estate, estate of the realm
--1 has particulars:Dominion; Reich; rogue state, renegade state, rogue nation; suzerain; sea power; world power, major power, great power, power, superpower; city state; ally - nation, land, country, a people - 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 is a kind of people
--2 has members: national, subject
--2 has particulars: - nation - a federation of tribes (especially native American tribes); "the Shawnee nation"
--3 is a kind of confederation, confederacy, federation
--3 has particulars: tribe, federation of tribes- Nation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation - United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)
--4 is a kind of dry, prohibitionist
- Nation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation - United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)