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ethnonationalist en · ADJ

Etymology

From ethno- + nationalist.

Meanings

  1. Of or pertaining to ethnonationalism.
    • According to the BfV, the JA promotes an ethno-nationalist worldview that ostracizes anyone who is not a native, white German. 2023 May 24, Nadine Schmidt and Sophie Tanno, “Germany intensifies scrutiny of far-right AfD, labeling its youth wing ‘extremist’”, in CNN:
    • Recent events in Somalia, Kosovo, Chechnya and Afghanistan show that the new global threat is not conventionally massed national armies but what one study calls “ethnonationalist paramilitary bands, organized in small, dispersed units.” 2001 December 9, Bruce Sterling, “BattleSwarm”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2022:
    • Some so-called establishment Republicans, alarmed by the rise of the ethnonationalist wing of the party, comfort themselves with the belief that this movement can be domesticated, absorbed into the traditional coalition with its sharp edges sanded off. 2017 October 21, Peter Wehner, “Going Against the Republican Herd”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2020:
    • Hungary has effectively become a one-party autocracy, ruled by an ethnonationalist ideology. Poland seems well down the same path. 2018 May 21, Paul Krugman, “What’s the Matter With Europe?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020:

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ethnonationalist en · NOUN

Etymology

From ethno- + nationalist.

Meanings

  1. A proponent of ethnonationalism.
    • This election is a hint of one way things could turn next: a new split between the beneficiaries of multicultural globalism and the working-class ethnonationalists who feel left behind economically and culturally. 2016 October 19, Nate Cohn, “The New Blue and Red: An Educational Split Is Replacing the Culture War”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2020:
    • As central Party control weakened, independence demands grew in other republike, inspired in part by local ethnonationalisms and fear of living in a Yugoslavia dominated by Serbian ethnonationalists. 2010, Moira Inghilleri, Sue-Ann Harding, Translation and Violent Conflict, page 228:

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ethnonationalists Number=Plur lexicographic