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IRRIDENTIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does irridentist mean?
• IRRIDENTIST (noun)
The noun IRRIDENTIST has 1 sense:
1. an advocate of irredentism
Familiarity information: IRRIDENTIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An advocate of irredentism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
irredentist; irridentist
Hypernyms ("irridentist" 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)
irridentism (the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related)
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