Nation vs. Nationality

Nation vs. Nationality — Is There a Difference?

Difference Between Nation and Nationality

Nationnoun

A relatively large group of people organized under a single, usually independent government; a country.

Nationalitynoun

The status of belonging to a particular nation by origin, birth, or naturalization.

Nationnoun

The territory occupied by such a group of people

All across the nation, people are voting their representatives out.

Nationalitynoun

A people having common origins or traditions and often constituting a nation.

Nationnoun

The government of a sovereign state.

Nationalitynoun

Existence as a politically autonomous entity; national independence.

Nationnoun

A people who share common customs, origins, history, and frequently language; a nationality

"Historically the Ukrainians are an ancient nation which has persisted and survived through terrible calamity" (Robert Conquest).

Nationalitynoun

National character.

Nationnoun

A federation or tribe, especially one composed of Native Americans.

Nationalitynoun

Nationalism.

Nationnoun

The territory occupied by such a federation or tribe.

Nationalitynoun

Membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.

Nationnoun

A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed on the basis of a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture.

The Roma are a nation without a country.The Kurdish people constitute a nation in the Middle East

Nationalitynoun

National, i.e. ethnic and/or cultural, character or identity.

Nationnoun

A sovereign state.

Though legally single nations, many states comprise several distinct cultural or ethnic groups.

Nationalitynoun

A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state.

Nationnoun

An association of students based on its members' birthplace or ethnicity. t

Once widespread across Europe in medieval times, nations are now largely restricted to the ancient universities of Sweden and Finland.

Nationalitynoun

Political existence, independence or unity as a national entity.

Nationnoun

(obsolete) A great number; a great deal.

Nationalitynoun

(archaic) Nationalism or patriotism.

Nationnoun

(rare) Damnation.

Nationalitynoun

the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization

Nationadverb

Extremely, very.

Nationnoun

a politically organized body of people under a single government;

the state has elected a new presidentAfrican nationsstudents who had come to the nation's capitolthe country's largest manufactureran industrialized land

Nationnoun

the people who live in a nation or country;

a statement that sums up the nation's moodthe news was announced to the nationthe whole country worshipped him

Nationnoun

a federation of tribes (especially native American tribes);

the Shawnee nation

Nationnoun

United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)