nationality

noun

Etymology: From national + -ity, perhaps after French nationalité; ultimately from Latin nātio (“nation, people”).

1. Legal membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.

   “By living in the country for five years, you are entitled to get nationality.”

   “Stefi was born in Spain to a Brazilian father and a Chilean mother, so is eligible for three nationalities.”

2. A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state.
3. National, i.e. ethnic and/or cultural, character or identity.

   “[…]permit me to say that the Harranians were Arabs and that the Arabs in occupying Spain and Andalusia did not lose their nationality; they remained Arabs. […] The fact that they preserved their former religion, Sabaeanism, does not mean they should be considered foreign to the Arab nationality.”

4. Nationalism or patriotism.

   “‘You are, to be sure, wonderfully free from that nationality: but so it happens, that you employ the only Scotch shoe-black in London.’”

5. Political existence, independence or unity as a national entity.