nation: meaning and words from its letters
6 letters · 6 letter points · starts with N · ends with N
Meaning of nation
noun
- collective
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.
- broadly, collective, humorous, informal, often
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. A community united by some trait (especially an interest) but not historically constituted.
Example: the Dallas Cowboys nation
- metonymically
A sovereign state; (loosely, metonymic, proscribed) a country.
Example: Though legally single nations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups.
In North America, an Indigenous people with federal and/or state recognition as such and (often also) their federally recognized territory.
Example: The Choctaw Nation is the third-largest federally recognized tribe in the United States and the second-largest Indian reservation in area.
Listed forms: nations.
Source: Wiktionary — nation.
noun
- rare
Damnation.
Source: Wiktionary — nation.
adv
- dialectal, rare
Extremely, very.
Source: Wiktionary — nation.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for nation.
noun
a politically organized body of people under a single government
- state
- country
- land
- commonwealth
- res publica
- body politic
noun
the people who live in a nation or country
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is nation in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of nation
N(1) + A(1) + T(1) + I(1) + O(1) + N(1) = 6 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of nation
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from nation
34 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in nation. Showing up to 24, longest first.