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NATIONAL ANTHEM
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A song formally adopted as the anthem for a nation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("national anthem" is a kind of...):
anthem (a song of devotion or loyalty (as to a nation or school))
Instance hyponyms:
Marseillaise (the French national anthem)
The Star-Spangled Banner (a poem written by Francis Scott Key during the War of 1812 was set to music and adopted by Congress in 1931 as the national anthem of the United States)