- a citizen of a particular country
- Polish nationals living in Germany
- Foreign nationals are now being evacuated from the city.
- There is concern for the safety of British nationals in the region.
Extra Examples- There's no scrutiny of how a state treats its own nationals.
- Applications for asylum from nationals of certain countries are routinely rejected.
- Portugal has an estimated 40 000 nationals in Angola.
- Two British nationals were involved in the accident.
- An English national was arrested at the scene.
- The government has advised British nationals to leave the area.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French, from Latin natio(n-) ‘birth, race of people’, from nat- ‘born’, from the verb nasci.
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