nationality
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nationality
- /ˌnæʃ.əˈnæl.ɪ.ti/
- /ˌnæʃˈnæl.ɪ.ti/
- /-ˈnæl.ə.ti/
- /-ˈnæl.ti/
Where it comes from
From national + -ity, perhaps after French nationalité; ultimately from Latin nātio (“nation, people”).
noun nationalities
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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.
Similar: affiliation, allegiance, ancestry, citizenship, descent, enfranchisement, ethnicity, national status, naturalization, origin, parentage, race
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A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state.
Rosa Luxemburg held that the recognition of the right of nationalities to self-determination was one of the Bolsheviks' gravest mistakes.
Similar: clan, confederation, cultural group, culture, denomination, ethnic group, ethnicity, faith, group, nation, people, persuasion
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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.
Similar: ancestry, color, colour, ethnicity, identity, origin
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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.’
Similar: nationalism, patriotic sentiment, patriotism
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Political existence, independence or unity as a national entity.
Similar: autarchy, autonomy, freedom, independence, liberty, nationhood, self-determination, self-government, self-rule, separation, sovereignty
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: nation, country, land, a people, ethnic, nationalism, nationalist, national, ethnicity, nationhood, citizenship, naturalization, citizenry, naturalisation, citizen, membership
Translations
Every language
noun membership of a nation or state
| Español | nacionalidad |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 국적 gukjeok |
| 日本語 | 国籍 kokuseki |
| 中文 | 國籍 /国籍 guójí |
| हिन्दी | राष्ट्रीयता rāṣṭrīytā, नागरिकता nāgriktā |
| Kiswahili | uraya, utaifa |
| Português | nacionalidade |
| Français | nationalité |
| Deutsch | Nationalität |
| Italiano | nazionalità |
| Ελληνικά | εθνικότητα ethnikótita |
| Română | naționalitate |
| Русский | национа́льность nacionálʹnostʹ, наро́дность naródnostʹ, гражда́нство graždánstvo |
| Tiếng Việt | quốc tịch |
| العربية | جِنْسِيَّة jinsiyya |
| עברית | אזרחות ezrakhút |
noun people belonging to a nation or state — see also nation
| Kiswahili | uraya, utaifa |
|---|---|
| Русский | наро́д naród, на́ция nácija, э́тнос étnos, пле́мя plémja |
| עברית | לאום leóm, אומה umá |
noun national character or identity
| 中文 | 國籍 /国籍 guójí |
|---|---|
| हिन्दी | राष्ट्रीयता rāṣṭrīytā |
| Kiswahili | uraya, utaifa |
| Português | nacionalidade |
| Ελληνικά | ιθαγένεια ithagéneia, εθνικότητα ethnikótita |
| Русский | национа́льность nacionálʹnostʹ, наро́дность naródnostʹ |
| العربية | جِنْسِيَّة jinsiyya |
| עברית | לאומיות leumiyút |
Talk about this word "nationality." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/nationality. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. nationality. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/nationality "nationality." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/nationality.Cite this
@misc{nationality_2026,
title = {nationality},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nationality},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
