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NATIONALIST LEADER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The leader of a nationalist movement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("nationalist leader" is a kind of...):

leader (a person who rules or guides or inspires others)

nationalist (an advocate of national independence of or a strong national government)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nationalist leader"):

American Revolutionary leader (a nationalist leader in the American Revolution and in the creation of the United States)

Instance hyponyms:

Gandhi; Mahatma Gandhi; Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule; an advocate of passive resistance (1869-1948))

Mandela; Nelson Mandela; Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918))

Charles Stewart Parnell; Parnell (Irish nationalist leader (1846-1891))

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