The difference between Nation and People

When used as nouns, nation means a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture, whereas people means .

Nation is also adverb with the meaning: extremely.

People is also verb with the meaning: to stock with people or inhabitants.

check bellow for the other definitions of Nation and People

  1. Nation as a noun:

    A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.

    Examples:

    "The Roma are a nation without a country."

    "The Kurdish people constitute a nation in the Middle East"

  2. Nation as a noun (international, _, legal):

    A sovereign state.

    Examples:

    "Though legally single nations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups."

  3. Nation as a noun (chiefly, historical):

    An association of students based on its members' birthplace or ethnicity.

    Examples:

    "Once widespread across Europe in medieval times, nations are now largely restricted to the ancient universities of Sweden and Finland."

  4. Nation as a noun (obsolete):

    A great number; a great deal.

  1. Nation as a noun (rare):

    Damnation.

  1. Nation as an adverb (rare, dialectal):

    Extremely; very

  1. People as a noun:

    ; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.

    Examples:

    "Why do so many people commit suicide?"

  2. People as a noun (countable):

    Persons forming or belonging to a particular group, such as a nation, class, ethnic group, country, family, etc; folk; a community.

  3. People as a noun:

    A group of persons regarded as being employees, followers, companions or subjects of a ruler.

  4. People as a noun:

    One's colleagues or employees.

  5. People as a noun:

    A person's ancestors, relatives or family.

    Examples:

    "My people lived through the Black Plague and the Thirty Years War."

  6. People as a noun:

    The mass of a community as distinguished from a special class (elite); the commonalty; the populace; the vulgar; the common crowd; the citizens.

  7. People as a noun:

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  1. People as a verb (transitive):

    To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate.

  2. People as a verb (intransitive):

    To become populous or populated.

  3. People as a verb (transitive):

    To inhabit; to occupy; to populate.

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