nationality

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   people having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation

   immigrants of the same nationality often seek each other out

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   National, i.e. ethnic and/or cultural, character or identity.

   […]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.

4. 4
   noun

   Nationalism or patriotism.

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

5. 5
   noun

   the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization

6. 6
   noun

   A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state.

7. 7
   noun

   Political existence, independence or unity as a national entity.

Etymology

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