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The adjective that turns any noun into everyone's business, whether they asked or not.
means Belonging to, representing, or concerning an entire nation rather than a region, group, or individual.
from From Latin 'natio' meaning birth, breed, or race — itself from 'nasci,' to be born. The word traveled through French 'national' before settling into English in the 1500s-1600s, carrying its birth-origins with it: a nation was first imagined as a people bound by common birth, and anything 'national' was simply what belonged to that whole birth-tied tribe.
- etymology
- From Latin natio, meaning birth or tribe
- sneaky function
- Makes random days feel mandatory, like National Donut Day
- branding trick
- Slap it on anything to sound official and underfunded
- vs federal
- National is identity, federal is paperwork