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ethnonationalist

ethnonationalist adjective: of or pertaining to ethnonationalism.

Adjective

ethnonationalist (comparative more ethnonationalist, superlative most ethnonationalist)

  1. Of or pertaining to ethnonationalism.
    • Recent events in Somalia, Kosovo, Chechnya and Afghanistan show that the new global threat is not conventionally massed national armies but what one study calls “ethnonationalist paramilitary bands, organized in small, dispersed units.”2001 December 9, Bruce Sterling, “BattleSwarm”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022
    • Some so-called establishment Republicans, alarmed by the rise of the ethnonationalist wing of the party, comfort themselves with the belief that this movement can be domesticated, absorbed into the traditional coalition with its sharp edges sanded off.2017 October 21, Peter Wehner, “Going Against the Republican Herd”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2020

Noun

ethnonationalist (plural ethnonationalists)

  1. A proponent of ethnonationalism.
    • As central Party control weakened, independence demands grew in other republike, inspired in part by local ethnonationalisms and fear of living in a Yugoslavia dominated by Serbian ethnonationalists.2010, Moira Inghilleri, Sue-Ann Harding, Translation and Violent Conflict, page 228
    • This election is a hint of one way things could turn next: a new split between the beneficiaries of multicultural globalism and the working-class ethnonationalists who feel left behind economically and culturally.2016 October 19, Nate Cohn, “The New Blue and Red: An Educational Split Is Replacing the Culture War”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2020

Forms of ethnonationalist

Adjective
comparativemore ethnonationalist
superlativemost ethnonationalist
Noun
pluralethnonationalists

Origin of ethnonationalist

From ethno- + nationalist.

Questions about ethnonationalist

What does ethnonationalist mean?
Ethnonationalist means of or pertaining to ethnonationalism.
What part of speech is ethnonationalist?
Ethnonationalist can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near ethnonationalist in the dictionary

  1. ethnomycologists
  2. ethnomycology
  3. ethnonational
  4. ethnonationalism
  5. ethnonationalisms
  6. ethnonationalist
  7. ethnonationalistic
  8. ethnonationalists
  9. ethnonationalities
  10. ethnonationality
  11. ethnonutrition

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