NATIONALIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nationalist mean? 

• NATIONALIST (noun)
  The noun NATIONALIST has 2 senses:

1. one who loves and defends his or her country

2. an advocate of national independence of or a strong national government

  Familiarity information: NATIONALIST used as a noun is rare.

• NATIONALIST (adjective)
  The adjective NATIONALIST has 1 sense:

1. devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others

  Familiarity information: NATIONALIST used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NATIONALIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One who loves and defends his or her country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

nationalist; patriot

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An advocate of national independence of or a strong national government

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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)

• NATIONALIST (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

Synonyms:

nationalist; nationalistic

Context example:

minor nationalistic differences

Similar:

national (limited to or in the interests of a particular nation)

Derivation:

nationalist (one who loves and defends his or her country)