nationality

Meaning

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

Synonyms

citizenship

nation

race

people

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

clan

family

👪

lineage

ethnic group

tribe

parentage

descendant

birth

patriotism

pedigree

national

Kansa

flag

folk

genealogy

genus

heredity

Kansas

cultural heritage

class

national identity

nationalism

nationhood

origin

civism

social group

ethnonymics

caste

populace

blood type

seed

species

appearance

ethnics

nation science

alligiance

by extension

ethnic

ethnicity

extraction

Hyphenated as

na‧tion‧al‧i‧ty

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌnæʃ.əˈnæl.ɪ.ti/

Etymology

From national + -ity, perhaps after French nationalité; ultimately from Latin nātio (“nation, people”).