(1):
(n.) A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock.
(2):
(n.) Family; lineage.
(3):
(n.) One of the divisions of university students in a classification according to nativity, formerly common in Europe.
(4):
(n.) A great number; a great deal; - by way of emphasis; as, a nation of herbs.
(5):
(n.) One of the four divisions (named from the parts of Scotland) in which students were classified according to their nativity.
(6):
(n.) The body of inhabitants of a country, united under an independent government of their own.