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natl.

natl. is the abbreviation of national.

Meaning of national

Adjective

national (comparative more national, superlative most national)

  1. Pertaining to a nation or country, especially as a whole; affecting, shared by, or existing throughout all of a nation; the state.
    • a national assembly · on the front page of every national newspaper
  2. Belonging to or characteristic of a specific nation or country, as opposed to others.
    • this is their national dish · our national tendency to laugh at the French
  3. (archaic) Nationalistic; patriotic.
    • ‘Come, come, don't deny it: they are really national. Why, now, the Adams are as liberal-minded men as any in the world: but, I don't know how it is, all their workmen are Scotch.’1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 599

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Questions about natl.

What is natl. the abbreviation of?
Natl. is the abbreviation of national.

Words near natl. in the dictionary

  1. nativization
  2. nativize
  3. nativized
  4. nativizes
  5. nativizing
  6. natl.
  7. natla
  8. natlang
  9. natlangs
  10. natlot
  11. Natmeg

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Adapted from Wiktionary: natl. (page history and authors); national (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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