What is the difference between origin and nationality?
origin | nationality | Synonyms |
The beginning of something.
The source of a river, information, goods, etc.
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, title= (mathematics) The point at which the axes of a coordinate system intersect.
(anatomy) The proximal end of attachment of a muscle to a bone that will not be moved by the action of that muscle.
(cartography) An arbitrary point on the earth's surface, chosen as the zero for a system of coordinates.
(in the plural) Ancestry.
Membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.
National, i.e. ethnic and/or cultural, character or identity.
A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state.
Political existence, independence or unity as a national entity.
(archaic) Nationalism or patriotism.
Nationality is a synonym of origin.
As nouns the difference between origin and nationality
is that origin is the beginning of something while nationality is membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.origin
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(en noun)Sam Leith
Where the profound meets the profane, passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.}}