national

1. 1.

   of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country

   “national hero”

   “national anthem”

   “a national landmark”
2. 2.

   limited to or in the interests of a particular nation

   “national interests”

   “isolationism is a strictly national policy”

   Antonymsinternational

   Similarnationalist
3. 3.

   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”

   Antonymslocal

   Similarfederal
4. 4.

   owned or maintained for the public by the national government

   “national parks”

   Similarpublic
5. 5.

   inside the country

   “the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior”

   “the nation's internal politics”

   Synonymshomeinteriorinternal

   Similardomestic
6. 6.

   characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation

   “a national trait”
7. 7.

   of or relating to nationality

   “national origin”

1. 1.

   a person who owes allegiance to that nation

   “a monarch has a duty to his subjects”

   Synonymssubject

   Broaderperson

   Narrowercitizencompatriotpatriot

   Part ofnation

Other forms of national

plural

nationals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about national

What does national mean?

national means "of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in national?

national has 3 syllables: nat-io-nal. The stress falls on "nat". In IPA it is /ˈnæʃənəl/.

What is another word for national?

Close synonyms include home, interior, internal, subject. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of national?

The recorded antonyms are international, local.

Is national a common word?

national is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with national?

3 words rhyme with national. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.