NATIONAL ANTHEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does national anthem mean? 

• NATIONAL ANTHEM (noun)
  The noun NATIONAL ANTHEM has 1 sense:

1. a song formally adopted as the anthem for a nation

  Familiarity information: NATIONAL ANTHEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATIONAL ANTHEM (noun)

Sense 1

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)