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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Nationality \Na'tion*al"i*ty\, noun; pl. {Nationalities}. [Cf. F. nationalit['e].]
1. The quality of being national, or strongly attached to one's own nation; patriotism.
2. The sum of the qualities which distinguish a nation; national character.
3. 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.
4. Existence as a distinct or individual nation; national unity and integrity.
5. The state or quality of belonging to or being connected with a nation or government by nativity, character, ownership, allegiance, etc.; as, to record one's nationality on identification papers; the Soviet Union had citizens of many nationalities. [1913 Webster +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: people having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation; "immigrants of the same nationality often seek each other out"; "such images define their sense of nationality"
2: the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization
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