NATION OF ISLAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nation of Islam mean? 

• NATION OF ISLAM (noun)
  The noun NATION OF ISLAM has 1 sense:

1. a group of militant Black Americans who profess Islamic religious beliefs and advocate independence for Black Americans

  Familiarity information: NATION OF ISLAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATION OF ISLAM (noun)

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Meaning:

A group of militant Black Americans who profess Islamic religious beliefs and advocate independence for Black Americans

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Nation of Islam" is a kind of...):

religious movement (a movement intended to bring about religious reforms)

Meronyms (members of "Nation of Islam"):

Black Muslim (an activist member of a largely American group of Blacks called the Nation of Islam)