0 someone or something of which a particular country is very proud:
Put together they would be a national treasure, a primary source on the art of the actor.
That makes them a national treasure.
I firmly believe that those hills and green vales are a national treasure—a much neglected treasure and one that is kept on the cheap.
This palace is a great national treasure and a vital part of our national heritage.
The universities are so important to our future that we need to spend an increasing amount of the national treasure on developing them.
Our generation must take the necessary steps to ensure that this great national treasure is properly conserved.
It is, one could say, something of a national treasure.
Again, the way in which it is proposed that this national treasure should be dealt with seems thoroughly sensible.