Meaning of PATRIOT
| Pronunciation: | | 'peytreeut
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| | Definition: | | [n] one who loves and defends his or her country |
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| | Synonyms: | | nationalist |
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| | See Also: | | chauvinist, flag-waver, Garibaldi, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Giuseppe Mazzini, Gonne, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist, Kosciusko, Kosciuszko, Maud Gonne, Mazzini, national, subject, Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko, Thaddeus Kosciusko | |
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\Pa"tri*ot\, n. [F. patriote; cf. Sp. patriota, It.
patriotto; all fr. Gr. ? a fellow-countryman, fr. ?
established by forefathers, fr. ? father. See {Father}.]
One who loves his country, and zealously supports its
authority and interests. --Bp. Hall.
Such tears as patriots shaed for dying laws. --Pope.
\Pa"tri*ot\, a.
Becoming to a patriot; patriotic.
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