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PATRIOT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
One who loves and defends his or her country
Synonyms:
nationalist; patriot
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("patriot" is a kind of...):
national; subject (a person who owes allegiance to that nation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "patriot"):
chauvinist; flag-waver; hundred-percenter; jingo; jingoist; patrioteer (an extreme bellicose nationalist)
Instance hyponyms:
Garibaldi; Giuseppe Garibaldi (Italian patriot whose conquest of Sicily and Naples led to the formation of the Italian state (1807-1882))
Gonne; Maud Gonne (Irish patriot and a founder of the Sinn Fein (1865-1953))
Kosciusko; Kosciuszko; Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko; Thaddeus Kosciusko (Polish patriot and soldier who fought with Americans in the American Revolution (1746-1817))
Giuseppe Mazzini; Mazzini (Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872))
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