NATIONALITY


Meaning of NATIONALITY in English

(nationalities)

1.

If you have the ~ of a particular country, you were born there or have the legal right to be a citizen.

The crew are of different nationalities and have no common language.

N-VAR

2.

You can refer to people who have the same racial origins as a ~, especially when they do not have their own independent country.

...the many nationalities that comprise Ethiopia.

N-COUNT

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