nationalist | | |
n. (person) | 1. nationalist, patriot | one who loves and defends his or her country. |
| ~ national, subject | a person who owes allegiance to that nation.; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects" |
| ~ flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist, patrioteer, chauvinist | an extreme bellicose nationalist. |
| ~ 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). |
n. (person) | 2. nationalist | an advocate of national independence of or a strong national government. |
| ~ advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent | a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea. |
| ~ nationalist leader | the leader of a nationalist movement. |
adj. | 3. nationalist, nationalistic | devotion to the interests or culture of a particular nation including promoting the interests of one country over those of others.; "nationalist aspirations"; "minor nationalistic differences" |
| ~ national | limited to or in the interests of a particular nation.; "national interests"; "isolationism is a strictly national policy" |
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