Nationality

Definition of Nationality

Na`tion`al´i`ty

n.	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.; as, to record one's nationality on identification papers; the Soviet Union had citizens of many nationalities.

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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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