nationalist

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsnationalistic

   Similarnational

Other forms of nationalist

plural

nationalists·

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.

Questions about nationalist

What does nationalist mean?

nationalist means "one who loves and defends his or her country". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nationalist?

nationalist has 4 syllables: nat-io-na-list. The stress falls on "nat". In IPA it is /ˈnæʃənələst/.

What is another word for nationalist?

Close synonyms include patriot, nationalistic. 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 nationalist a common word?

nationalist is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.