segregationalist
segregationalist noun: a segregationist; a supporter of racial, ethnic, or religious segregation.
Noun
segregationalist (plural segregationalists)
- A segregationist; a supporter of racial, ethnic, or religious segregation.
- One who believes that linguistic signs have meaning independent of the context of their use in communication.
Adjective
segregationalist
- Segregationist; supportive of or leading to racial, ethnic, or religious segregation.
- Characteristic of segregationalism.
- In other words, the “'language myth' myth” produces a history of linguistics that is as segregationalist — if not more so — than the linguistics it is purporting to describe.1997, George Wolf, Nigel Love, Linguistics Inside Out: Roy Harris and his critics, →ISBN, page 40
- According to the orthodox segregationalist view, the essential difference between reading the words 'Open the door' and hearing the words 'Open the door' is that the reader has learnt a set of audiographic correlations […]2014, Redefining Linguistics, →ISBN, page 41
Forms of segregationalist
| plural | segregationalists |
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Origin of segregationalist
From segregational + -ist.
Questions about segregationalist
- What does segregationalist mean?
- Segregationalist means a segregationist; a supporter of racial, ethnic, or religious segregation.
- What part of speech is segregationalist?
- Segregationalist can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of segregationalist?
- The plural of segregationalist is segregationalists.
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