nation, n. 1. nationality, race, tribe, clan, ethnic group; dynasty, family, house; (all of a nation) people, public, population, inhabitants, natives, residents, dwellers; members, membership, subjects, citizens, citizenry; society, community.
2. country, land, republic, polity, state, commonwealth, city-state, principality; kingdom, empire, empery, realm, royal domain or territory; union, federation, confederation, confederacy,
national, adj. 1. federal, state, tribal; civil, civic, domestic, internal, intestinal; nationwide, countrywide.
2. patriotic, nationalist, nationalistic, chauvinistic, jingoistic.
-n. 3. (all of a nation) citizen, subject, member, native, inhabitant, resident,
nationalism, n. national spirit or pride, nationality, love of one's country, Latin, amor patriae, patriotism, chauvinism, jingoism, my country right or wrong; isolationism, isolation,
nationalist, n. 1. patriot, loyal citizen, chauvinist, jingo, jingoist; isolationist.
-adj. 2. nationalistic, national, patriotic, chauvinistic, jingoistic.
nationality, n. 1. (both of a nation) membership, citizenship.
2. nationalism, patriotism, national spirit. See - nationalism.
3. nation, race, tribe, clan, ethnic group; dynasty, family house; ancestry, ancestral line, lineage, descent, parentage, birth, derivation, extraction, filiation; strain, stock, breed, bloodline, pedigree, stem, branch, stirps; heredity, genealogy, family tree; heritage, background, past, history, roots.
nationwide, adj. country-wide, national, federal, interstate, cross-country; general, overall, broad, widespread, far-reaching, extensive,
native, adj. 1. inborn, innate, inbred, connate, connatural, natural, natural-born, ingenerate; inherent, immanent, indwelling, intrinsic; congenital, hereditary, inherited, in the blood, in the family.
2. local, domestic, homemade, homegrown, indigenous; natal, aboriginal, original, vernacular; endemic, endemical, autochthonous, autocthonal, autochthonic.
3. genuine, real, authentic, legitimate, honest, actual; simple, plain, unadorned; unchanged, untouched, unaffected, unaltered, unmodified; uncombined, free, pure; unrefined, crude; untamed, wild.