SEPARATIONIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does separationist mean? 

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

1. an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEPARATIONIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

separationist; separatist

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

advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)

Domain category:

church; church service (a service conducted in a house of worship)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "separationist"):

white separatist (someone who advocates a society in which white people live separately from members of other racial groups)