Dictionary 1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a nation; common to a whole people or race; public; general; as, a national government, language, dress, custom, calamity, etc.2. (a.) Attached to one's own country or nation. Thesaurus all-comprehending all-comprehensive all-covering all-embracing all-encompassing all-filling all-including all-inclusive all-pervading allover catholic chauvinistic citizen citizen by adoption civic civil clannish common communal cosmopolitan cosmopolite country-wide ecumenic ethnic family federal galactic general genetic gentile gentilic global governmental heaven-wide home hyphenate hyphenated American immigrant inhabitant inland internal international intestine jingoistic lineal metic municipal nationalist nationalistic native naturalized citizen nondenominational nonnative citizen nonsectarian patriotic phyletic phylogenetic planetary popular public racial resident social societal state subject supranational total totemic tribal universal world-wide |