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nationalist
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun nationalist has 2 senses
- nationalist(n = noun.person) patriot - one who loves and defends his or her country; Array is a kind of national, subject
- nationalist(n = noun.person) Array - an advocate of national independence of or a strong national government; Array is a kind of advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent
has particulars: chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist, patrioteer, garibaldi, giuseppe garibaldi, gonne, maud gonne, kosciusko, kosciuszko, tadeusz andrzej bonawentura kosciuszko, thaddeus kosciusko, giuseppe mazzini, mazzini
Derived forms noun nationalism1, adjective nationalist1
has particulars: nationalist leader
Derived forms noun nationalism4, noun nationalism3
Adjective nationalist has 1 sense
- nationalist(s = adj.all) nationalistic - devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others; "nationalist aspirations"; "minor nationalistic differences" Derived form noun nationalist1
CIDE DICTIONARY
nationalist, n.
- One who advocates national unity and independence; -- as, for example, one of a party favoring Irish independence before 1918. [1913 Webster]
- One who advocates nationalism, in any sense. [PJC]
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