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nation

 
     
  An aggregation of people who, as the result of having certain important phenomena in common – such as descent, language, history, culture, or simply feeling – assert that collectively they constitute a national (sense 1) unit. See also self-determination.


A popular synonym for sovereign state (sometimes extended to ‘nation-state’).
 
 

 

 

 
 
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