Definition of national

"national" in the noun sense

1. national, subject

a person who owes allegiance to that nation

"a monarch has a duty to his subjects"

"national" in the adjective sense

1. national

of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country

"national hero"

"national anthem"

"a national landmark"

2. national

limited to or in the interests of a particular nation

"national interests"

"isolationism is a strictly national policy"

3. national

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"

4. national

owned or maintained for the public by the national government

"national parks"

5. home, interior, internal, national

inside the country

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

"the nation's internal politics"

6. national

characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation

"a national trait"

7. national

of or relating to nationality

"national origin"

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Quotations for national

Religion is no more national than conscience. [ Mirabeau ]

National enthusiasm is the great nursery of genius. [ Tuckermann ]

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character. [ Alexander Hamilton ]

New national pride will stir our souls, lift our sights, and heal our divisions. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

It is by no means improbable that the national character of human societies may be modified by their favorite diet. [ Chatfield ]

National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent in the lowest degree of culture. [ Goethe ]

National character varies as it fades under invasion or corruption; but if ever it glows again into a new life, that life must be tempered by the earth and sky of the country itself. [ John Ruskin ]

Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance has been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good. [ J. G. Holland ]

It is curious for one who studies the action and reaction of national literature on each other, to see the humor of Swift and Sterne and Fielding, after filtering through Richter, reappear in Carlyle with a tinge of Germanism that makes it novel, alien, or even displeasing, as the case may be, to the English mind. [ Lowell ]

Whatever strengthens our local attachments is favorable both to individual and national character, our home, our birthplace, our native land. Think for a while what the virtues are which arise out of the feelings connected with these words, and if you have any intellectual eyes, you will then perceive the connection between topography and patriotism. [ Southey ]

The dramatist, like the poet, is born, not made. There must be inspiration back of all true and permanent art, dramatic or otherwise, and art is universal: there is nothing national about it. Its field is humanity, and it takes in all the world; nor does anything else afford the refuge that is provided by it from all troubles and all the vicissitudes of life. [ William Winter ]

Why has the beneficent Creator scattered over the face of the earth such a profusion of beautiful flowers? Why is it that every landscape has its appropriate flowers, every nation its national flowers, every rural home its home flowers? Why do flowers enter and shed their perfume over every scene of life, from the cradle to the grave? Why are flowers made to utter all voices of joy and sorrow in all varying scenes? It is that flowers have in themselves a real and natural significance; they have a positive relation to man; they correspond to actual emotions; they have their mission - a mission of love and mercy; they have their language, and from the remotest ages this language has found its interpreters. [ Henrietta Dumont ]

national in Scrabble®

The word national is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters national:

NATIONAL
(81)
NATIONAL
(81)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

antlion

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word national

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In national

NATIONAL
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NATIONAL
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ANTLION
(78 = 28 + 50)
ANTLION
(74 = 24 + 50)
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(74 = 24 + 50)
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national in Words With Friends™

The word national is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters national:

ANTLION
(89 = 54 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

antlion

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word national

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In national

ANTLION
(89 = 54 + 35)
ANTLION
(83 = 48 + 35)
ANTLION
(83 = 48 + 35)
NATIONAL
(78)
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ANTLION
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NATIONAL
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ATONAL
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Words within the letters of national

2 letter words in national (11 words)

3 letter words in national (14 words)

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5 letter words in national (5 words)

6 letter words in national (6 words)

7 letter words in national (1 word)

8 letter words in national (1 word)

national + 1 blank (2 words)

Words containing the sequence national

Words with national in them (90 words)

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