nationality
nationality is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The sum of the qualities which distinguish a nation; national character.
- 2.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.
- 3.Existence as a distinct or individual nation; national unity and integrity.
- 4.The state or quality of belonging to or being connected with a nation or government by nativity, character, ownership, allegiance, etc.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- and
- anthropogeny
- anthropography
- anthropoid
- anthropology
- anthroposophy
- being
- benevolence
- benevolent
- body
- brother
- chivalric
- chivalry
- citizen
- civic
- civism
- clan
- common
- commonalty
- commonweal
- commonwealth
- communism
- communist
- community
- consanguinity
- cosmopolitan
- cosmopolitanism
- cosmopolite
- country
- creation
- creature
- earthling
- errant
- errantry
- ethnography
- ethnology
- family
- fellow
- flesh
- folk
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
Related questions
Reverse-dictionary questions
Definition-first questions whose answer is nationality.
- What is the sum of the qualities which distinguish a nation; national character called?
- What is existence as a distinct or individual nation; national unity and integrity called?
- What is the state or quality of belonging to or being connected with a nation or government by nativity, character, ownership, allegiance, etc called?
Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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