Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun body_politic

1 sense of body politic

Sense 1
state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic -- (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")
       => political unit, political entity -- (a unit with political responsibilities)