national

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From Middle French national, corresponding to nation + -al.

Withdrawal of national bank notes. — A School History of the United States, John Bach McMaster
Robin Hood was a thoroughly national character. — From Chaucer to Tennyson: With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors, Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
It is the same with national feeling as with the Church. — Dostoevsky, André Gide

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