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IRREDENTIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Synonyms:
irredentist; irridentist
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("irredentist" is a kind of...):
advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)
Derivation:
irredenta (a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another)
irredentism (the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related)