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# nationality

«nationality» in Mova's school dictionary: **The legal right of belonging to a particular country…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a nationality, nationalities)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The legal right of belonging to a particular country; being a citizen: her nationality is Irish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nationality/#m1)

2) A group of people who share the same culture, language or history: many nationalities live in the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nationality/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

On forms, passports and in citizenship lessons you write your nationality (British, American, Canadian, Australian...). In geography and everyday life, «people of many nationalities» describes a mixed city or class. Phrases: dual nationality (two countries), of all nationalities, what nationality are you?

### examples

- What nationality are you? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nationality/#x1)
- My nationality is Canadian. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nationality/#x2)
- There are children of twelve nationalities in our school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nationality/#x3)
- She has dual nationality: Irish and Australian. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nationality/#x4)
- Write your nationality on the form. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nationality/#x5)
- People of many nationalities came to watch the games. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nationality/#x6)
- His passport shows his nationality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nationality/#x7)
- Nationality may assert itself until it becomes affectation, and the developments of a century may run wild, as youth often does. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nationality/#x8)

### note

Countable: nationalities. Nationality words take a capital letter: British, Irish, New Zealander. Different from «ethnicity» (a cultural group) and «race». Related: nation, national.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nationality» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nationality/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.