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NATIONAL TRUST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does National Trust mean?
• NATIONAL TRUST (noun)
The noun NATIONAL TRUST has 1 sense:
1. an organization concerned to preserve historic monuments and buildings and places of historical interest or natural beauty; founded in 1895 and supported by endowment and private subscription
Familiarity information: NATIONAL TRUST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An organization concerned to preserve historic monuments and buildings and places of historical interest or natural beauty; founded in 1895 and supported by endowment and private subscription
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
National Trust; NT
Hypernyms ("National Trust" is a kind of...):
NGO; nongovernmental organization (an organization that is not part of the local or state or federal government)
Domain region:
Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
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