nationality
Legal membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.
Example
“By living in the country for five years, you are entitled to get nationality.”
Other meanings
A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state.
National, i.e. ethnic and/or cultural, character or identity.
Related words
- antinationality
- ethnonationality
- nationalitarian
- transnationality
- unnationality
- nationality sign
- double nationality
- dual nationality
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “nationality” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.