· a politically organized body of people under a single government; "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"
Synonym(s): state, nation, land, commonwealth, res_publica, body_politic
Hypernym(s): political_unit, political_entity
· the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
Hypernym(s): administrative_district, administrative_division, territorial_division
· 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"; "the whole country worshipped him"
Hypernym(s): people
· an area outside of cities and towns; "his poetry celebrated the slower pace of life in the country"
Synonym(s): rural_area
Hypernym(s): geographical_area, geographic_area, geographical_region, geographic_region
· a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography); "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country"
Synonym(s): area
Hypernym(s): region