know-nothing party

1. 1.

   a former political party in the United States; active in the 1850s to keep power out of the hands of immigrants and Roman Catholics

   SynonymsAmerican Party

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Questions about know-nothing party

What does know-nothing party mean?

know-nothing party means "a former political party in the United States; active in the 1850s to keep power out of the hands of immigrants and Roman Catholics".

What is another word for know-nothing party?

Close synonyms include American Party. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is know-nothing party a common word?

know-nothing party is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.