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English Dictionary: national	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for national
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
national adj of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country; "national hero"; "national anthem"; "a national landmark" limited to or in the interests of a particular nation; "national interests"; "isolationism is a strictly national policy" Antonym(s): international 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" Antonym(s): local owned or maintained for the public by the national government; "national parks" inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" Synonym(s): home(a), interior(a), internal, national characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation; "a national trait" of or relating to nationality; "national origin" n a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects" Synonym(s): national, subject
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
National \Na"tional\ (?; 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, [bd]God save the King[b8] 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.]