What is the meaning of Nation?

noun

• A politically organized body of people under a single government.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: state, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic
• The people who live in a nation or country.
  • usage: "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him"
  • synonyms: land, country
• United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911.
  • synonyms: Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation
• A federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes. )
  • usage: "the Shawnee nation"