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say it: ZAHY-uh-nist
zionist is an adjective and noun meaning "relating to or characteristic of Zionism". It is pronounced /ˈzaɪənɪst/ — ZAHY-uh-nist. It carries 3 recorded senses.
relating to or characteristic of Zionism
“the Zionist movement”
relating to or characteristic of a supporter of Zionism
“the Zionist leader Theodor Herzl”
a Jewish supporter of Zionism
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 zionist 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.