across the nation

1. 1.

   extending throughout an entire nation

   “nationally advertised”

   “it was broadcast nationwide”

   Synonymsnationallynationwideacross the country

Questions about across the nation

What does across the nation mean?

across the nation means "extending throughout an entire nation".

What is another word for across the nation?

Close synonyms include nationally, nationwide, across the country. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is across the nation a common word?

across the nation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.