Nationality

//ˌnæʃ.əˈnæl.ɪ.ti// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Legal membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.

    "By living in the country for five years, you are entitled to get nationality."

  2. 2
    people having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation wordnet
  3. 3
    A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state.
  4. 4
    the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization wordnet
  5. 5
    National, i.e. ethnic and/or cultural, character or identity. archaic

    "[…]permit me to say that the Harranians were Arabs and that the Arabs in occupying Spain and Andalusia did not lose their nationality; they remained Arabs. […] The fact that they preserved their former religion, Sabaeanism, does not mean they should be considered foreign to the Arab nationality."

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  1. 6
    Nationalism or patriotism. archaic

    "‘You are, to be sure, wonderfully free from that nationality: but so it happens, that you employ the only Scotch shoe-black in London.’"

  2. 7
    Political existence, independence or unity as a national entity. obsolete

Etymology

From national + -ity, perhaps after French nationalité; ultimately from Latin nātio (“nation, people”).

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