patriotism
UK/ˈpætɹi.əˌtɪzəm//ˈpeɪtɹi.əˌtɪzəm/
patriotism noun: love of one's country; devotion to the welfare of one's compatriots; passion which inspires one to serve one's country.
Noun
patriotism (countable and uncountable, plural patriotisms)
- Love of one's country; devotion to the welfare of one's compatriots; passion which inspires one to serve one's country.
- That public virtue, which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the preservation and prosperity of the free government of which we are members.1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol I, ch 1-pt ii
- In the hour of death we shall have the consolation to see established in the land of our fathers the most wonderful work of wisdom and disinterested patriotism that has ever yet appeared on the globe.1803, Thomas Jefferson, Letter to George Clinton, volume ME 10:440
- The actions of a patriot.
- The desire to compete sharply with, and perhaps also dominate, other nations; nationalism.
- Near-synonyms: chauvinism, superpatriotism
- Patriotism cannot be good. What produces war is the desire for an exclusive good for one’s own nation – that is called patriotism. And so to abolish war, it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism, it is necessary first to become convinced that it is an evil.1896 January 2, Leo Wiener, “Patriotism or Peace”, in The Kingdom of God is within You; Christianity and Patriotism Miscellanies, Moscow, translation of letter to Manson by Count Lev N. Tolstoy
- Synonyms:
- chauvinism, superpatriotism
patriotism meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
patriotism in Hindi
- love of one's own country
- देशभक्ति deśbhakti, देशप्रेम deśaprem, देशानुराग deśānurāg, स्वदेशानुराग svadeśānurāg
patriotism in Tamil
- நாட்டுப்பற்று, தேசப்பற்று
patriotism in Urdu
- love of one's own country
- وَطَن پَرَسْتی vatan parastī, حُبُّ ٱلْوَطَنی hubbu lvatanī
patriotism in Bengali
- love of one's own country
- স্বদেশপ্রেম swodeśoprem, দেশপ্রেম deśoprem
More languagesFewer languages
- patriotism in Malayalam
- ജന്മദേശസ്നേഹം, രാജ്യഭക്തി, ദേശഭക്തി
- patriotism in Kannada
- ನಾಡರ್ತಿ, ನಾಡೊಲುಮೆ, ದೇಶಪ್ರೇಮ, ದೇಶಭಕ್ತಿ
- patriotism in Pashto
- هېوادپالنه hewādpālǝ́na
- patriotism in Tagalog
- pagkamakabayan
- patriotism in Arabic
- وَطَنِيَّة waṭaniyya, مَحَبَّةْ وَطَن maḥabbat waṭan, حُبّ وَطَن ḥubb waṭan
- patriotism in Malay
- patriotisme
- patriotism in Indonesian
- patriotisme, cinta tanah air
- patriotism in Thai
- ความรักชาติ kwaam-rák-châat
- patriotism in Vietnamese
- lòng ái quốc, chủ nghĩa yêu nước
- patriotism in Myanmar
- မျိုးချစ်စိတ် myui:hkyaccit, ဝံသာနုရက္ခိတ wamsanu.rakhki.ta., ဇာတိသွေး jati.swe:, ဇာတိမာန် jati.man
Examples of patriotism in a sentence
- The subject of his play was the fate of Agis, the young and heroic King of Sparta: it gave the ideal of patriotism, relieved by the tenderness of sorrow, and the fidelity of love.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A First Night”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […]...
- Both Blimps and highbrows took for granted, as though it were a law of nature, the divorce between patriotism and intelligence.1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn:
- No party had an overriding claim to patriotism.1971, Lyndon Johnson, “"I feel like I have already been here a year"”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC...
- Jorgo Chatzimarkakis, a German member of the European Parliament, calls it 'European patriotism.' The Europeans play both sides, and if they do it well, they profit handsomely2008 January 27, Pagag Khanna, “Waving Goodbye to Hegemony”, in New York Times, page 34:
Synonyms of patriotism
Forms of patriotism
| plural | patriotisms |
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Origin of patriotism
From patriot + -ism.
Words formed from patriotism
- antipatriotism
- hyperpatriotism
- linguopatriotism
- matriotism
- overpatriotism
- patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel
- plastic patriotism
- ultrapatriotism
- unpatriotism
Questions about patriotism
- What does patriotism mean?
- Patriotism means love of one's country; devotion to the welfare of one's compatriots; passion which inspires one to serve one's country.
- What is patriotism in Hindi?
- Patriotism in Hindi is देशभक्ति (deśbhakti), देशप्रेम (deśaprem), देशानुराग (deśānurāg). See Patriotism meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use patriotism in a sentence?
- The subject of his play was the fate of Agis, the young and heroic King of Sparta: it gave the ideal of patriotism, relieved by the tenderness of sorrow, and the fidelity of love.
- What part of speech is patriotism?
- Patriotism is a noun.
- How do you pronounce patriotism?
- Patriotism is pronounced /ˈpætɹi.əˌtɪzəm/ (UK).
- What is the plural of patriotism?
- The plural of patriotism is patriotisms.
Words near patriotism in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: patriotism (page history and authors); patriotism (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); patriotism (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); patriotism (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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