national

of or relating to or belonging to a nation or country

• “national hero”
• “national anthem”
• “a national landmark”

limited to or in the interests of a particular nation

• “national interests”
• “isolationism is a strictly national policy”

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”

owned or maintained for the public by the national government

• “national parks”

inside the country

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

characteristic of or peculiar to the people of a nation

• “a national trait”

of or relating to nationality

• “national origin”

a person who owes allegiance to that nation

• “a monarch has a duty to his subjects”