Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (a.) Of or pertaining to a nation; common to a whole people or race; public; general; as, a national government, language, dress, custom, calamity, etc. 2. (a.) Attached to one's own country or nation.

Multi-Version Concordance National (1 Occurrence) 2 Kings 17:29 Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt. (See NIV)