<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Spirit or aspirations common to the whole of a nation.</li><li>Devotion and loyalty to one's own country; patriotism.</li><li>Excessive patriotism; chauvinism.</li><li>The desire for national advancement or political independence.</li><li>The policy or doctrine of asserting the interests of one's own nation viewed as separate from the interests of other nations or the international community.</li><li>An idiom or trait peculiar to a nation.</li><li>A movement, as in the arts, based upon the folk idioms, history, aspirations, etc., of a nation.</li></ul>