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Nationality
//ˌnæʃ.əˈnæl.ɪ.ti// noun
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Noun
- 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 people having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation wordnet
- 3 A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state.
- 4 the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization wordnet
- 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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- 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.’"
- 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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