GIRONDIST

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• GIRONDIST (noun)
  The noun GIRONDIST has 1 sense:

1. a member of the moderate republican party that was in power during the French Revolution; the Girondists were overthrown by their more radical rivals the Jacobins

  Familiarity information: GIRONDIST used as a noun is very rare.

• GIRONDIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the moderate republican party that was in power during the French Revolution; the Girondists were overthrown by their more radical rivals the Jacobins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Girondin; Girondist

Hypernyms ("Girondist" is a kind of...):

revolutionary; revolutionist; subversive; subverter (a radical supporter of political or social revolution)

Derivation:

Gironde (the French moderate political party that was in power (1791-1793) during the French Revolution)