Synonyms for nationality


Grammar : Noun
Spell : nash-uh-nal-i-tee
Phonetic Transcription : ˌnæʃ əˈnæl ɪ ti

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Définition of nationality

Origin :
  • 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.
  • But 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]
  • noun place of birth
Example sentences :
  • They at least will understand that scholarship knows no nationality.
  • Extract from : « The Dramatic Values in Plautus » by Wilton Wallace Blancke
  • "Don't even know her name or nationality," he confessed to himself after a while.
  • Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
  • He once had been friendly with all his intelligent neighbors, no matter what their nationality.
  • Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
  • But the simple measure of nationality is severely natural and elemental.
  • Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
  • The principle of nationality is emerging from the tortuous confusion of the ages.
  • Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
  • They forget, also, that nationality is not a fixed and immovable quantity.
  • Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
  • The sense of nationality is but an enlarged sense of personality.
  • Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
  • The problems of nationality are wrapped up in the problems of personality.
  • Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
  • The varieties of nationality, costume and color are striking in the extreme.
  • Extract from : « Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight » by Mathew Joseph Holt
  • After breakfast was over, however, I got a clue to her nationality.
  • Extract from : « The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales » by Arthur Conan Doyle

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