Meaning

1. nation (group of people sharing aspects of language, culture, and/or ethnicity)
2. (colloquial) crowds, traffic
3. (obsolete) group, type (set of things with the same traits)
4. (obsolete) family
5. descendant (one who is the progeny of someone)
6. origin
7. tribesman
8. generation (average amount of time before a child takes the place of its parents)
9. gender (kind of an organism as determined by its reproductive organs)