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SEPARATIST

Pronunciation (US):

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 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 ("separatist" 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 "separatist"):

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

Derivation:

separate (discontinue an association or relation; go different ways)

separatism (a disposition toward schism and secession from a larger group; the principles and practices of separatists)

separatist (having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude)

 II. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude

Example:

a breakaway faction

Synonyms:

breakaway; fissiparous; separatist

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

independent (free from external control and constraint)

Derivation:

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

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