nationalist

Speech parts

1. nationalist - Noun

2. nationalist - Adjective

3. nationalist - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

One who advocates national unity and independence; one of a party favoring Irish independence.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

patriot patriotic nationalistic nativist chauvinist jingoist ultranationalist national aryan nazi democratic loyal volunteer partisan statesman
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Antonyms

informer international miscreant false unfaithful treacherous
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Hypernyms

national subject exponent advocate proponent advocator

Hyponyms

jingo chauvinist jingoist patrioteer flag-waver hundred-percenter

Phrases with the word

christian nationalist black nationalist pan-nationalist strong-nationalist

Examples

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. George Orwell

[N]o serious historian of nations and nationalism can be a committed political nationalist... Nationalism requires too much belief in what is patently not so. Eric Hobsbawm

I was only a working-class boy from a Nationalist ghetto, but it is repression that creates the revolutionary spirit of freedom. Bobby Sands

Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism. Christian Lous Lange

We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty. We are deliberately putting a world order before our loyalty to our own country. Clement Attlee

Our political organization, based as it is on an eighteenth-century separation of powers and on a nineteenth-century nationalist state, is generally recognized to be semiobselete. Carroll Quigley

Close letter words and terms

nationalise nationaliser nationalism Nationalist China nationalist leader nationalistic