Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a politically organized body of people under a single government;
- Example: "the state has elected a new president"- Example: "African nations"- Example: "students who had come to the nation's capitol"- Example: "the country's largest manufacturer"- Example: "an industrialized land"[syn: state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
res publica
n 1: a politically organized body of people under a single
government; "the state has elected a new president";
"African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's
capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an
industrialized land" [syn: state, nation, country,
land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic]