nationality

noun5

1. •
   Legal membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.

   • By living in the country for five years, you are entitled to get nationality.
   • Stefi was born in Spain to a Brazilian father and a Chilean mother, so is eligible for three nationalities.
2. •
   A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state.

   • Rosa Luxemburg held that the recognition of the right of nationalities to self-determination was one of the Bolsheviks' gravest mistakes. — 1978
3. •
   (no longer used) National, i.e. ethnic and/or cultural, character or identity.
4. •
   (no longer used) Nationalism or patriotism.

   • ‘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
5. •
   (no longer used) Political existence, independence or unity as a national entity.