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BIGOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bigot mean? 

BIGOT (noun)
  The noun BIGOT has 1 sense:

1. a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his ownplay

  Familiarity information: BIGOT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BIGOT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

drumbeater; partisan; zealot (a fervent and even militant proponent of something)

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

chauvinist (a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind)

antifeminist (someone who does not believe in the social or economic or political equality of men and women)

homophobe (a person who hates or fears homosexual people)

racialist; racist (a person with a prejudiced belief that one racial group is superior to others)

sectarian; sectarist; sectary (a member of a sect)

segregationist; segregator (someone who believes the racial groups should be kept apart)


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