nation
A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.
Example
“The Roma are a nation without a country.”
Other meanings
A community united by some trait (especially an interest) but not historically constituted.
A sovereign state; a country.
“Though legally single nations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups.”
Example sentences
Word history
From Latin "nātiōnem".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “nation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.