<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own</li><li>the territory or country itself</li><li>a member tribe of an American Indian confederation</li><li>an aggregation of persons of the same ethnic family, often speaking the same language or cognate languages</li></ul>