National
['næʃ(ə)n(ə)l] or ['næʃnəl]
Definition
(noun.) a person who owes allegiance to that nation; 'a monarch has a duty to his subjects'.
(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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Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to a nation; common to a whole people or race; public; general; as, a national government, language, dress, custom, calamity, etc.
(a.) Attached to one's own country or nation.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Public, general.
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Definition
adj. pertaining to a nation: public: general: attached to one's own country.—n. Nationalisā′tion the act of nationalising as of railways private property &c.: the state of being nationalised.—v.t. Nat′ionalise to make national: to make a nation of.—ns. Nat′ionalism; Nat′ionalist one who strives after national unity or independence esp. as in Ireland for more or less separation from Great Britain: an advocate of nationalism: National′ity birth or membership in a particular country: separate existence as a nation: a nation race of people: national character.—adv. Nat′ionally.—n. Nat′ionalness.—National air anthem the popular song by which a people's patriotic feelings are expressed; National Church the church established by law in a country; National Convention the sovereign assembly which sat from Sept. 21 1792 to Oct. 26 1795 after the abolition of monarchy in France; National debt money borrowed by the government of a country and not yet paid; National flag or ensign the principal flag of a country; National guard a force which took part in the French Revolution first formed in 1789.
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Examples
- In spite of such support, and its strong appeal to national vanity, British imperialism never saturated the mass of the British peoples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A heavy wood intervened between this work and the National forces. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I hate Italy and her national rant. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- For a time men have relapsed upon these national or imperial gods of theirs; it is but for a time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I have discovered but few national singularities among them. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- A more generous interpretation would be to say that he had tried to be inclusive, to attach a hundred sectional agitations to a national program. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Poor bewildered statesmen, unused to any notion of change, have seen the national life grow to a monstrous confusion and sprout monstrous evils by the way. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There was nothing national in his manner, nor, I think, in his character. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Of much that looms large in our national histories we cannot tell anything. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Not, I assure you, from any national prejudice in their favour; but, Frenchwomen are my aversion, generally speaking. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It had been in use in France up to the time of the National Assembly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One suspects at times that our national cult of optimism is no real feeling that the world is good, but a fear that pessimism will produce panics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- These pagan Saxons and English of the mainland and their kindred from Denmark and Norway are the Danes and Northmen of our national histories. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The accompanying soldiers received, with national vivacity, enthusiastic pleasure from the sight of beautiful nature. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The National Whig Convention, to nominate candidates for President and Vice-President, met at Baltimore on May 1, 1844. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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