nationality

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

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