1. nation - Noun
2. nation - Adverb
3. Nation - Proper noun
A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock.
The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own.
Family; lineage.
One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe.
One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity.
A great number; a great deal; -- by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. Frederick Douglass
The future of a nation lies in the hands of mothers. Honoré de Balzac
A person cannot choose the time in which he is born or lives; it is not up to him, who his parents are, or the nation he will be born into, but what he is responsible for is how he will act in that given time: will he be human or inhuman. Pavle (Serbian)
A ruler without a nation is like a flower without the sun. Russian Proverb
The ruin of a nation begins in the homes of its people. Ghana Proverb
Instruct a man, you instruct an individual. Instruct a woman, you instruct a nation. Moroccan Proverb