nationality

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state.
  3. National, i.e. ethnic and/or cultural, character or identity. archaic
    — […]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.
  4. Nationalism or patriotism. archaic
    — ‘You are, to be sure, wonderfully free from that nationality: but so it happens, that you employ the only Scotch shoe-black in London.’
  5. Political existence, independence or unity as a national entity. obsolete

词形变化

nationalities plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antinationality double nationality dual nationality ethnonationality nationalitarian nationality sign transnationality unnationality
相关词
nation national nationalise nationalism nationalist nationalistic nationalize nationhood nation-state nationwide naturalize

词源

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