If you have citizenship of a country, you are legally accepted as belonging to it.
例句
After 15 years in the USA, he has finally decided to apply for American citizenship...在美国生活了15年之后，他终于决定申请美国国籍。Only people who can trace their family history in Kuwait back before 1920 are entitled to citizenship.只有其在科威特的家族史可以追溯到1920年以前的人才能获国籍。
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公民归属；公民义务;公民责任感
Citizenship is the fact of belonging to a community because you live in it, and the duties and responsibilities that this brings.
例句
Their German peers had a more developed sense of citizenship.和他们同龄的德国人有着更强烈的公民归属感。
英汉词典释义
n.
公民(或市民)身份
They stripped me of my citizenship and deported me.他们剥夺我的公民资格,将我驱逐出境。He was stripped of his citizenship when he criticized the government.他由于批评政府而被剥夺了公民资格。Husbands and wives of British nationals do not automatically gain citizenship.英国公民的配偶不能自动取得公民身分。He was born in Sweden, but he doesn’t have Swedish citizenship.他在瑞典出生,但没有瑞典公民身分。Ten years later, she chose to take Australian citizenship.十年后，她选择了澳大利亚国籍。
个人的品德表现
Their citizenship in school is very good.他们在学校的表现非常好。