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national (adj.)
1590s, from Middle French
national
(from Old French
nation
), and also from
nation
+
-al
(1). As a noun, "citizen of a (particular) nation," from 1887.
National anthem
first recorded 1819, in Shelley. Related:
Nationally
.
