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NATIONALITY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
People having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation
Example:
such images define their sense of nationality
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("nationality" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Derivation:
national (concerned with or applicable to or belonging to an entire nation or country)
national (limited to or in the interests of a particular nation)
national (of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country)
national (of or relating to nationality)
national (characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("nationality" is a kind of...):
position; status (the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society)
Derivation:
national (of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country)
