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NATIONALIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An advocate of national independence of or a strong national government
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("nationalist" is a kind of...):
advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nationalist"):
nationalist leader (the leader of a nationalist movement)
Derivation:
nationalism (the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals)
nationalism (the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination)
Sense 2
Meaning:
One who loves and defends his or her country
Synonyms:
nationalist; patriot
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("nationalist" is a kind of...):
national; subject (a person who owes allegiance to that nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nationalist"):
chauvinist; flag-waver; hundred-percenter; jingo; jingoist; patrioteer (an extreme bellicose nationalist)
Instance hyponyms:
Garibaldi; Giuseppe Garibaldi (Italian patriot whose conquest of Sicily and Naples led to the formation of the Italian state (1807-1882))
Gonne; Maud Gonne (Irish patriot and a founder of the Sinn Fein (1865-1953))
Kosciusko; Kosciuszko; Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko; Thaddeus Kosciusko (Polish patriot and soldier who fought with Americans in the American Revolution (1746-1817))
Giuseppe Mazzini; Mazzini (Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872))
Derivation:
nationalism (love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it)
nationalist (devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others
Example:
minor nationalistic differences
Synonyms:
nationalist; nationalistic
Classified under:
Similar:
national (limited to or in the interests of a particular nation)
Derivation:
nationalist (one who loves and defends his or her country)
