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nationist

nationist adjective: a language used for the day-to-day functioning of government – official forms, intra-government communication. Also the misspelling of nationalist.

Adjective

nationist (comparative more nationist, superlative most nationist)

  1. A language used for the day-to-day functioning of government – official forms, intra-government communication.

Also used as

nationist is also the misspelling of nationalist.

Forms of nationist

comparativemore nationist
superlativemost nationist

Origin of nationist

From nation + -ist, from nationism, Joshua Fishman, 1968.

Questions about nationist

What does nationist mean?
Nationist means a language used for the day-to-day functioning of government – official forms, intra-government communication.
What part of speech is nationist?
Nationist is an adjective.

Words near nationist in the dictionary

  1. nationful
  2. nationhood
  3. nationhoods
  4. nationism
  5. nationisms
  6. nationist
  7. nationistic
  8. nationists
  9. nationless
  10. nationlessness
  11. nationlike

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