Meaning of NATIONAL
| Pronunciation: | | 'nashunl
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- [n] a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects"
- [adj] inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics"
- [adj] concerned with or applicable to or belonging to an entire nation or country; "the national government"; "national elections"; "of national concern"; "the national highway system"; "national forests"
- [adj] limited to or in the interests of a particular nation; "national interests"; "isolationism is a strictly national policy"
- [adj] owned or maintained for the public by the national government; "national parks"
- [adj] of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country; "national hero"; "national anthem"; "a national landmark"
- [adj] of or relating to nationality; "national origin"
- [adj] characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation; "a national trait"
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| | Synonyms: | | domestic, federal, general, home(a), interior(a), internal, nationalist, nationalistic, public, subject |
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| | Antonyms: | | international, local | | |
| | See Also: | | a people, citizen, compatriot, country, human, individual, land, mortal, nation, nationalist, patriot, person, somebody, someone, soul | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Na"tion*al\ (?; 277), a. [Cf. F. national.]
1. Of or pertaining to a nation; common to a whole people or
race; public; general; as, a national government,
language, dress, custom, calamity, etc.
2. Attached to one's own country or nation.
{National anthem}, a popular song or hymn which has become by
general acceptance the recognized musical expression of
the patriotic sentiment of a nation; as, ``God save the
King'' is called the national anthem of England.
{National bank}, the official common name of a class of
banking corporations established under the laws of the
United States.
{National flag}. See under {Flag}.
{National guard}, a body of militia, or a local military
organization, as in Paris during the French Revolution, or
as certain bodies of militia in other European countries
and in the United States.
{National salute}, a salute consisting of as many guns as
there are States in the Union. [U.S.]
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| | Related Terms: | | all-comprehending, all-comprehensive, all-covering, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-filling, all-including, all-inclusive, allover, all-pervading, catholic, chauvinistic, citizen, citizen by adoption, civic, civil, clannish, common, communal, cosmopolitan, cosmopolite, country-wide, ecumenic, ethnic, family, federal, galactic, general, genetic, gentile, gentilic, global, governmental, heaven-wide, home, hyphenate, hyphenated American, immigrant, inhabitant, inland, internal, international, intestine, jingoistic, lineal, metic, municipal, nationalist, nationalistic, native, naturalized citizen, nondenominational, nonnative citizen, nonsectarian, patriotic, phyletic, phylogenetic, planetary, popular, public, racial, resident, social, societal, state, subject, supranational, total, totemic, tribal, universal, world-wide |
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