(n): a unit with political responsibilities
(n): the people who live in a nation or country
(n): (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
(n): United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)
(n): a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages
(n): a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)
(n): a union of political organizations
An individual is as superb as a nation when he has the qualities which make a superb nation. The soul of the largest and wealthiest and proudest nation may well go half-way to meet that of its poets. Whitman, Preface 1855