Nationality

Noun

 * 1) Membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.
 * 2) National, i.e. ethnic and/or cultural, character or identity.
 * 3) A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state.
 * 4) Political existence, independence or unity as a national entity.
 * 5)  Nationalism or patriotism.

Synonyms

 * affiliation, allegiance, ancestry, citizenship, descent, enfranchisement, ethnicity, national status, naturalization, origin, parentage, race, residence, status
 * ancestry, color, colour, ethnicity, identity, origin
 * clan, confederation, cultural group, culture, denomination, ethnic group, ethnicity, faith, group, nation, people, persuasion, race, sect, tribe
 * autarchy, autonomy, freedom, independence, liberty, nationhood, self-determination, self-government, self-rule, separation, sovereignty
 * nationalism, patriotic sentiment, patriotism,

Related terms

 * nation, national, nationalise, nationalism, nationalist, nationalistic, nationalize
 * nationhood
 * nation-state
 * nationwide

Thesaurus
Americanism, Anglicism, Briticism, Everyman, John Doe, Public, aboriginality, ally, archduchy, archdukedom, autochthonousness, bloodline, body politic, breed, buffer state, captive nation, chauvinism, chieftaincy, chieftainry, citizenry, citizenship, city-state, clan, colony, common man, commonweal, commonwealth, community, community at large, country, county, culture, domain, dominion, duchy, dukedom, earldom, empery, empire, estate, ethnic group, everybody, everyman, everyone, everywoman, extraction, flag waving, folk, folks, free city, general public, gentry, grand duchy, heritage, independence, indigenousness, internationalism, internationality, jingoism, kingdom, land, love of country, mandant, mandate, mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, men, nation, nationalism, nationhood, native-bornness, nativeness, nativism, nativity, overpatriotism, patriotics, patriotism, pedigree, people, people in general, peoplehood, persons, polis, polity, populace, population, possession, power, principality, principate, protectorate, province, public, puppet government, puppet regime, race, realm, republic, roots, satellite, self-determination, self-government, seneschalty, settlement, society, sovereign nation, sovereign nationhood, sovereignty, speech community, state, statehood, stock, strain, sultanate, superpower, territory, toparchia, toparchy, tribe, ultranationalism, world, you and me

Etymology
From, recorded since 1691, perhaps modelled on nationalité:; ultimately from  natio:.

Translations

 * Arabic: جنسية
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: (ethnicity),  (citizenship)
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Khmer: ជនជាតិ
 * Korean: 국적 (國籍)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, народность,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:, utaifa
 * Swedish: nationalitet
 * Ukrainian: ,


 * Arabic: جنسية
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, volksaard


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian:
 * Swahili:, utaifa
 * Ukrainian:


 * Czech: (to an ethnicity),,  (to a state)
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian:, , , этнос


 * Swahili:, utaifa
 * Ukrainian:, , , , ,


 * Finnish:
 * Hungarian:
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 * : nationalitate
 * : nationalitate


 * : జాతీయత