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say it: NASH-uh-nuh-liz-uhm
nationalism is a noun meaning "love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it". It carries 4 recorded senses.
love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
“they rode the same wave of popular patriotism”
“British nationalism was in the air and patriotic sentiments ran high”
the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other
the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination
the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nationalism come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.