noun

• (now rare) National, i.e. ethnic and/or cultural, character or identity.
• (now rare) Nationalism or patriotism.
• National origin or identity; legal membership of a particular nation or state, by origin, birth, naturalization, ownership, allegiance or otherwise.
• A people sharing a common origin, culture and/or language, and possibly constituting a nation-state.
• (obsolete) Political existence, independence or unity as a national entity.