Synonyms for nationality
noun place of birthfolk
people
- John/Jane Q. Public
- bodies
- body politic
- bourgeois
- cats
- citizens
- clan
- common people
- commonality
- community
- crowd
- family
- folk
- folks
- general public
- heads
- herd
- hoi polloi
- horde
- human race
- humanity
- humankind
- humans
- inhabitants
- kin
- masses
- mob
- mortals
- multitude
- nation
- nationality
- person in the street
- persons
- plebeians
- populace
- population
- proletariat
- public
- rabble
- race
- rank and file
- riffraff
- society
- tribe
peoples
- John/Jane Q. Public
- bodies
- body politic
- bourgeois
- cats
- citizens
- clan
- common people
- commonality
- community
- crowd
- family
- folk
- folks
- general public
- heads
- herd
- hoi polloi
- horde
- human race
- humanity
- humankind
- humans
- inhabitants
- kin
- masses
- mob
- mortals
- multitude
- nation
- nationality
- person in the street
- persons
- plebeians
- populace
- population
- proletariat
- public
- rabble
- race
- rank and file
- riffraff
- society
- tribe
race
Word Origin & History
1690s, "national quality," from national + -ity (in some usages perhaps from French nationalité. As "fact of belonging to or being a citizen of a particular state," from 1828, gradually shading into "race, ethnicity." Meaning "separate existence as a nation" is recorded from 1832. Related: Nationalities.
Example Sentences fornationality
They at least will understand that scholarship knows no nationality.
"Don't even know her name or nationality," he confessed to himself after a while.
He once had been friendly with all his intelligent neighbors, no matter what their nationality.
But the simple measure of nationality is severely natural and elemental.
The principle of nationality is emerging from the tortuous confusion of the ages.
They forget, also, that nationality is not a fixed and immovable quantity.
The sense of nationality is but an enlarged sense of personality.
The problems of nationality are wrapped up in the problems of personality.
The varieties of nationality, costume and color are striking in the extreme.
After breakfast was over, however, I got a clue to her nationality.