PARTITIONIST

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An advocate of partitioning a country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("partitionist" is a kind of...):

advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)

Derivation:

partition (the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart)

partition (divide into parts, pieces, or sections)

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