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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
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
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Instance hypernyms:
national anthem (a song formally adopted as the anthem for a nation)