Webster's English Dictionary

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nationality

na.tion.al.i.ty \.nash-(*-)'nal-*t-e-\ n 1: national character  2: 
   NATIONALISM  3a: national status; specif : a legal relationship involving 
   allegi ance of the part of an individual and usu. protection on the part of 
   the state 3b: membership in a particular nation  4: political independence 
   or existence as a separate nation  5a: a people having a common origin, 
   tradition, and language and capable of  forming or actually constituting a 
   nation-state 5b: an ethnic group constituting one element of a larger unit 
   (as a nation)