Meaning of national | Babel Free

Definitions

1. national, nationwide (of or relating to a nation)
2. Pertaining to a nation or country, especially as a whole; affecting, shared by, or existing throughout all of a nation.
3. national (native to a nation)
4. Belonging to or characteristic of a specific nation or country, as opposed to others.
5. a member of the national militia
6. Nationalistic; patriotic.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“a national assembly · on the front page of every national newspaper”

“Import tariffs were raised for the national interest.”

“this is their national dish · our national tendency to laugh at the French”

“‘Come, come, don't deny it: they are really national. Why, now, the Adams are as liberal-minded men as any in the world: but, I don't know how it is, all their workmen are Scotch.’”

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