Definition

1. Adjective:

   • Nation-wide: Encompassing or involving the entire country. Used to describe an event, activity, or condition that occurs or applies across all regions of a nation.
   • National: Pertaining to the whole country as a single entity, often used in formal or organizational contexts.

2. Noun:

   • The whole country: Refers to the entirety of a nation, its entire territory and population considered as one.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Cuộc tổng tuyển cử toàn quốc sẽ diễn ra vào tháng tới. (The nation-wide general election will take place next month.)
  • Đây là một chương trình toàn quốc. (This is a national program.)
• Noun:
  • Lời kêu gọi này gửi đến toàn quốc. (This appeal is addressed to the whole country.)

Advanced Usage

• Often used in formal, political, administrative, or media contexts to indicate scale or scope.
• Can function as a noun adjunct (acting like an adjective) before another noun without a connecting word, e.g., "Hội nghị toàn quốc" (National Conference).

Variants and Related Words

• Trên toàn quốc (prepositional phrase): Throughout the country, across the nation.
  • Luật mới được áp dụng trên toàn quốc. (The new law is applied throughout the country.)

Synonyms

• Cả nước (adj, n): The whole country, nation-wide. (A more colloquial synonym.)
• Trên phạm vi cả nước (phrase): On a national scale.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Toàn quốc kháng chiến: Nation-wide resistance war. A historical term referring to a war of resistance involving the entire nation.
  • Lời kêu gọi toàn quốc kháng chiến năm 1946. (The call for a nation-wide resistance war in 1946.)

noun

1. the whole country

adj

1. nation-wide