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, nation, country, land, commonwealth, body politic
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