NATIONALITY - 9 definitions found
nationality n 1: people having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation; "immigrants of the same nationality often seek each other out"; "such images define their sense of nationality" 2: the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) nationality noun (plural -ties) Date: 1691 1. national character 2. nationalism 1 3. a. national status; specifically a legal relationship involving allegiance on the part of an individual and usually protection on the part of the state b. membership in a particular nation 4. political independence or existence as a separate nation 5. a. a people having a common origin, tradition, and language and capable of forming or actually constituting a nation-state b. an ethnic group constituting one element of a larger unit (as a nation) Oxford English Reference Dictionary
English Explanatory Dictionary nationality ˌnæʃəˈnælɪtɪ n. (pl. -ies) 1 a the status of belonging to a particular nation (what is your nationality?; has British nationality). b a nation (people of all nationalities). 2 the condition of being national; distinctive national qualities. 3 an ethnic group forming a part of one or more political nations. 4 existence as a nation; nationhood. 5 patriotic sentiment. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Nationality \Na`tion*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. Nationalities. [Cf. F. nationalit['e].] 1. The quality of being national, or strongly attached to one's own nation; patriotism. 2. The sum of the qualities which distinguish a nation; national character. 3. A race or people, as determined by common language and character, and not by political bias or divisions; a nation. the fulfillment of his mission is to be looked for in the condition of nationalities and the character of peoples. --H. W. Beecher. 4. Existence as a distinct or individual nation; national unity and integrity. 5. The state or quality of belonging to or being connected with a nation or government by nativity, character, ownership, allegiance, etc. Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms nationality n. 1. National character. 2. State, nation, commonwealth. 3. Race, people, nation, stock. 4. Patriotism, love of one's own nation, nationalism. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) nationality ˌnæʃəˈnælɪtɪ n. 1 citizenship: Some countries allow their citizens dual nationality. 2 race, nation, ethnic group, ethnos, clan, tribe; strain, stock, pedigree, heritage, roots, extraction, bloodline, breed: The country became a melting-pot of myriad nationalities. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 123 Moby Thesaurus words for "nationality": 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 |
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