Meanings
every sense kept, sourced — never inventednationlexitron
lifelexitron
nationalitylexitron
incarnation; existencelexitron
birth; origin(formal, in-compounds, often)wiktionary
life(especially)wiktionary
very long time(humorous, slang)wiktionary
race; clanwiktionary
nationality; citizenship(archaic)wiktionary
nationals, citizens, or inhabitants collectivelywiktionary
nation; country; statewiktionary
nature; characterwiktionary
type; kind; sort; class; group; variety; category(formal, in-compounds, often)wiktionary
In the readings
real sentences, spoken by real voicesคนต่างชาติส่วนใหญ่ไม่ค่อยชอบในการลองชิมครั้งเเรก
Most foreigners can't eat it at first.
คนต่างชาติชอบพูดว่าประเทศไทยคือดินแดนแห่งรอยยิ้ม
Foreigners love to say that Thailand is the Land of Smiles.
ที่นี่มีคนหลายเชื้อชาติอยู่ด้วยกัน
Here, people of many ethnicities live together.
บางคนมองคนต่างชาติด้วยสายตาไม่ดี
Some people look at foreigners with unkind eyes.
ใกล้ ๆ กันมีสุสานของทหารต่างชาติ
Nearby there's a cemetery for foreign soldiers.
Built from
Borrowed from Pali jāti (“birth, origin; kind, sort; etc”), ultimately from Sanskrit जाति (jāti, “idem”). Cognate with Old Khmer jāti, Modern Khmer ជាតិ (ciət), Lao ຊາດ (sāt). Developing from "birth" meaning, ชาติ has been used to refer to "group of people" since the late 18th century, while the sense of "national political community" came into use in 1880s.