national anthem

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   a song formally adopted as the anthem for a nation

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Questions about national anthem

What does national anthem mean?

national anthem means "a song formally adopted as the anthem for a nation".

Is national anthem a common word?

national anthem is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.