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Main Entry: nation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: country with its own government

Synonyms:

body politic, commonwealth, community, democracy, domain, dominion, empire, land, monarchy, people, populace, population, principality, public, race, realm, republic, society, sovereignty, state, tribe, union
Notes: country really refers to geographical characteristics while nation refers to political and social characteristics; country comes from Latin contrata (terra) 'the landscape in front of one, the landscape lying opposite to the view' and nation is from Latin nation-/natio 'race, class of person'
a nation is made up of states - and a country is a nation defined geographically
Main Entry: civilization
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: society

Synonyms:

civilized life, community, customs, literate society, modern humanity, mores, nation, people, polity, way of life
Main Entry: commonwealth
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: political or geographic area

Synonyms:

body politic, citizenry, citizens, commonality, democracy, federation, nation, people, polity, republic, society
Notes: a republic is a state or nation where the supreme power lies with its citizens; a commonwealth is an allied group of republics
Main Entry: community
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: society, area of people

Synonyms:

association, body politic, center, colony, commonality, commonwealth, company, district, general public, hamlet, locality, nation, neck of the woods, neighborhood, people, populace, public, residents, society, state, stomping ground, territory, turf
Main Entry: constituency
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: voting public

Synonyms:

balloters, body of voters, body politic, citizenry, city, county, district, electorate, electors, faction, nation, people, precinct, state, system, voters, voting area, ward
Main Entry: folk
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person's relations, acquaintances

Synonyms:

body politic, clan, community, confederation, culture group, ethnic group, family, general public, group, house, household, inhabitants, kin, kindred, lineage, masses, ménage, nation, nationality, people, population, proletariat, public, race, settlement, society, state, stock, tribe
Main Entry: kingdom
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: historically, an area ruled by a monarch

Synonyms:

commonwealth, country, county, crown, division, domain, dominion, dynasty, empire, field, lands, monarchy, nation, possessions, principality, province, realm, reign, rule, scepter, sovereignty, sphere, state, suzerainty, sway, territory, throne, tract
Main Entry: land
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: earth's surface; ownable property

Synonyms:

acreage, acres, area, beach, continent, country, countryside, dirt, district, earth, estate, expanse, extent, farming, farmland, field, ground, grounds, holding, home, homeland, loam, mainland, manor, nation, old sod, parcel, plot, province, purlieu, quarry, quinta, ranch, real estate, realty, region, shore, sod, soil, stretch, sweep, terra firma, terrain, territory, tillage, tract

Antonyms:

sea, sky
Main Entry: nationality
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: place of birth

Synonyms:

allegiance, body politic, citizenship, community, country, ethnic group, nation, native land, origin, political home, race, society
Main Entry: people
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: human beings

Synonyms:

John/Jane Q. Public, bodies, body politic, bourgeois, cats, citizens, clan, common people, commonality, community, crowd, family, folk, folks, general public, heads, herd, hoi polloi, horde, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, inhabitants, kin, masses, mob, mortals, multitude, nation, nationality, person in the street, persons, plebeians, populace, population, proletariat, public, rabble, race, rank and file, riffraff, society, tribe

Antonyms:

animals, plants
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