Crossword clues for nationality
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nationality \Na`tion*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. Nationalities. [Cf. F. nationalit['e].]
The quality of being national, or strongly attached to one's own nation; patriotism.
The sum of the qualities which distinguish a nation; national character.
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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. Existence as a distinct or individual nation; national unity and integrity.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, "national quality," from national + -ity (in some usages perhaps from French nationalité. As "fact of belonging to or being a citizen of a particular state," from 1828, gradually shading into "race, ethnicity." Meaning "separate existence as a nation" is recorded from 1832. Related: Nationalities.\n\nBut I do love a country that loves itself. I love a country that insists on its own nationality which is the same thing as a person's insisting on his own personality.
[Robert Frost, letter, April 21, 1919]
Wiktionary
n. 1 Membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise. 2 National, i.e. ethnic and/or cultural, character or identity. 3 A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state. 4 Political existence, independence or unity as a national entity. 5 (context archaic English) nationalism or patriotism.
WordNet
n. the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization
Wikipedia
Nationality is the legal relationship between a person and a state. Nationality affords the state jurisdiction over the person and affords the person the protection of the state. What these rights and duties are vary from state to state.
By custom and international conventions, it is the right of each state to determine who its nationals are. Such determinations are part of nationality law. In some cases, determinations of nationality are also governed by public international law—for example, by treaties on statelessness and the European Convention on Nationality.
Nationality differs technically and legally from citizenship, which is a different legal relationship between a person and a country. The noun national can include both citizens and non-citizens. The most common distinguishing feature of citizenship is that citizens have the right to participate in the political life of the state, such as by voting or standing for election. However, in most modern countries all nationals are citizens of the state, and full citizens are always nationals of the state.
In English and some other languages, the word nationality is sometimes used to refer to an ethnic group (a group of people who share a common ethnic identity, language, culture, descent, history, and so forth). This meaning of nationality is not defined by political borders or passport ownership and includes nations that lack an independent state (such as the Scots, Welsh, English, Basques, Kurds, Kabyles, Tamils, Hmong, Inuit and Māori).
Individuals may also be considered nationals of groups with autonomous status which have ceded some power to a larger government.
Usage examples of "nationality".
On the other hand, a writer in the Strand Magazine points out that an insurance investigator some years ago gathered a list of 225 centenarians of almost every social rank and many nationalities, but the majority of them Britons or Russians.
Doctor Marillier did not dance the cotillon, did not sing, did not act, had not that peculiar charm of manner which is found in both men and women of mixed nationality, but he had gifts of his own, powers of his own, even a certain odd charm all his own.
Curtis and Jean de Courtois were, as names, particularly as the names of two men of different nationalities, sufficiently alike to invite comment.
Like Doni, however, she was Albanian by nationality, carrying a similar passport.
German empire can not in the long run maintain its true nationality and the independence of its development, if it does not begin without delay and with the greatest energy to mold its internal and external politics as well as the whole life of the people in accordance with eugenic principles.
Original Christianity, internally regarded in its divine truth, was the pure moral law exemplified in the personal traits of Jesus Christ, and universalized by his ascent out of the flesh into that kingdom of heaven which knows not nationalities or ceremonies.
And, of other nationalities, this and that small tribe or gau or even sibja that he has persuaded to gamble for greatness.
Jews were conspicuous as regime loyalists amidst the sea of irredentist nationalities tearing the Austro-Hungarian Empire apart.
The team assigned by El Mico to this operation did not speculate on the nationality or identity of the two men in charge, at least not aloud.
But the basic traits are there in Humbert Humbert: the immense culture and the exhibitionist pedantry, the fastidiousness and snobbery, the inability to align himself with any nationality - a fatal cosmopolitanism.
On the surface of that world all the risen races of being would be distributed, the inhabitants of a present solar system making a nation, the sum of gigantic nationalities constituting one prodigious, death exempted empire, its solitary sovereign GOD.
If the mark on my swaddling clothes meant anything at all, it might have been the initial letter of a name like Thrasamund or Theudebert, indicating that I could have been a Burgund child, a Frank, a Gepid, a Thuringian, a Suevian, a Vandal or any other of the nationalities of Germanic origin.
Is it, do you suppose, because I have always insisted on viewing us not as a collection of races and nationalities but as a group that shares the same taxonomic classification, that of Earth-planet extant?
But the Rumanes across the Pruth were few compared with the four millions across the Carpathians, and the hardships they shared with the Russians at the hands of the Tsardom irked them less than those injuries which the Magyars knew so well how to inflict on subject nationalities under the cloak of equal rights and liberties.
In the tournaments every effort was made to prevent any feeling of national rivalry, and although parties of knights held their own against all comers, these were most carefully selected to represent several nationalities, and therefore victory, on whichsoever side it fell, excited no feelings of bitterness.