Nationality
[næʃə'nælɪtɪ] or [,næʃə'næləti]
Definition
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization.
Edited by Lancelot--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality of being national, or strongly attached to one's own nation; patriotism.
(n.) The sum of the qualities which distinguish a nation; national character.
(n.) A race or people, as determined by common language and character, and not by political bias or divisions; a nation.
(n.) Existence as a distinct or individual nation; national unity and integrity.
(n.) The state or quality of belonging to or being connected with a nation or government by nativity, character, ownership, allegiance, etc.
Checker: Natalia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. National character.[2]. State, realm, nation, commonwealth.
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Examples
- What nationality are you? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- What is nationality? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Nearly every nation contributed, the reader will note, for science knows no nationality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Scotchmen do not seem to believe very much in this British nationality. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The desire and yearning of my soul is for an African _nationality_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Oriental peoples who had never heard of nationality before, took to it as they took to the cigarettes and bowler hats of the west. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Each province clung to its separate nationality and traditions, and the Huns spread from province to province. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Your nationality and your politics did not show when you were dead. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The artist had unconsciously worked his nationality into the picture. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The nice shades of nationality comprised in the above list, and the languages spoken by them, are altogether too numerous to mention. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Rousseau consciously set aside the problem of nationality or citizenship; he was cosmopolitan, and explicitly renounced the idea of planning the education of a Frenchman or a Swiss. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Men were brought to feel that they were as improper without a nationality as without their clothes in a crowded assembly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And isn't this what we mean by nationality? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Again, are the English a nation or have they merged into a British nationality? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The world perishes unless sovereignty is merged and nationality subordinated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In these preceding ten sections we have been dealing with an age of division, of separated nationalities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This vast army of men consisted of all nationalities and all grades and conditions of labor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We together, or even either separately, are better qualified than any other people to establish commerce between all the nationalities of the world. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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