national

  • (a) of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country
    • national hero
    • national anthem
    • a national landmark
  • (a) limited to or in the interests of a particular nation
    • national interests
    • isolationism is a strictly national policy
  • (a) 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
  • (s) owned or maintained for the public by the national government
    • national parks
  • (s) inside the country
    • the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior
    • the nation's internal politics
    interior, home, internal,
  • (a) characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation
    • a national trait
  • (a) of or relating to nationality
    • national origin

Nouns

  • (n) a person who owes allegiance to that nation
    • a monarch has a duty to his subjects
    subject,

Synonyms

subject interior home internal

Antonyms

international local

See also

domestic

Words of close approximity

National Academy of Sciences National Aeronautics and Space Administration national anthem National Archives and Records Administration national assistance National Association of Realtors National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations national bank National Baseball Hall of Fame national capital national censorship National Climatic Data Center national debt national debt ceiling national flag National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency National Guard National Guard Bureau national holiday national income National Institute of Justice National Institute of Standards and Technology National Institutes of Health national insurance National Intelligence Community nationalisation nationalise nationalism nationalist Nationalist China nationalistic nationalist leader nationality nationalization nationalize National Labor Relations Board national leader National Liberation Army National Liberation Front of Corsica National Library of Medicine nationally national monument National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration national park National Park Service National Reconnaissance Office National Rifle Association National Science Foundation National Security Agency National Security Council national service national socialism national socialist National Socialist German Workers' Party National Technical Information Service national trading policy National Trust National Volunteers Association National Weather Service