nationality

CEFRA2

/ˌnæʃ.əˈnæl.ɪ.ti/

noun

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noun
A person's legal membership in a particular country.
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noun
Extra detail
A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state.

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Extra meanings

National, i.e. ethnic and/or cultural, character or identity.
Legal membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.
Nationalism or patriotism.

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One reason why many Asian countries oppose dual nationality is a belief that it can create divided loyalties among citizens, said Jelena Dzankic, co-director of the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT), an international citizenship research network.
2021 March 15, Jessie Yeung, “These Asian countries are giving dual citizens an ultimatum on nationality – and loyalty”, in CNN
Guatemala has pledged a 40% increase in deportation flights carrying Guatemalans and migrants of other nationalities from the United States, President Bernardo Arévalo announced Wednesday during a press conference with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
2025 February 5, Michael Rios, “Guatemala to increase deportation flights from US carrying migrants from other countries”, in CNN
[…]permit me to say that the Harranians were Arabs and that the Arabs in occupying Spain and Andalusia did not lose their nationality; they remained Arabs. […] The fact that they preserved their former religion, Sabaeanism, does not mean they should be considered foreign to the Arab nationality.
1968, Sayyid Jamāl ad-Dīn, “Answer of Jamāl ad-Dīn to Renan”, in Nikki R. Keddie, translated by Nikki R. Keddie, An Islamic Response to Imperialism, University of California Press, →LCCN, page 185
‘You are, to be sure, wonderfully free from that nationality: but so it happens, that you employ the only Scotch shoe-black in London.’
1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 599

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