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SEPARATIONIST

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union)

Synonyms:

separationist; separatist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

Domain category:

church; church service (a service conducted in a house of worship)

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

white separatist (someone who advocates a society in which white people live separately from members of other racial groups)

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