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nation
nation is a 6-letter English word with 10 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 10 senses
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- 1noun
A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock.
- 2noun
The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own.
- 3noun
Family; lineage.
- 4noun
One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe.
- 5noun
One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity.
- 6noun
A great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs.
- 7noun
the people who live in a nation or country
"a statement that sums up the nation's mood"
"the news was announced to the nation"
- 8noun
a politically organized body of people under a single government
"the state has elected a new president"
"African nations"
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- 9noun
a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)
"the Shawnee nation"
- 10noun
United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)
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