IRREDENTIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does irredentist mean? 

• IRREDENTIST (noun)
  The noun IRREDENTIST has 1 sense:

1. an advocate of irredentism

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IRREDENTIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An advocate of irredentism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

irredentist; irridentist

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

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

Derivation:

irredenta (a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another)

irredentism (the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related)