national

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   concerned with or applicable to or belonging to an entire nation or country

   the national government

2. 2
   adj

   limited to or in the interests of a particular nation

   national interests

3. 3
   adj

   owned or maintained for the public by the national government

   national parks

4. 4
   adj

   of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country

   national hero

5. 5
   adj

   of or relating to nationality

   national origin

6. 6
   adj

   characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation

   a national trait

7. 7
   adj

   Pertaining to a nation or country, especially as a whole; affecting, shared by, or existing throughout all of a nation.

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

8. 8
   adj

   Belonging to or characteristic of a specific nation or country, as opposed to others.

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

Etymology

From Middle French national, corresponding to nation + -al.