Meaning

noun a politically organized body of people under a single government

noun the people who live in a nation or country

noun United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)

originEtymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tisder. Proto-Italic *gnātiō Latin nātiōbor. Old French nacionbor. Middle English nacioun English nation From Middle English nacioun, nacion, from Old French nacion, from Latin nātiōnem, accusative of nātiō (“nation”). Displaced Old English þēod.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0