KNOW-NOTHING PARTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Know-Nothing Party mean? 

• KNOW-NOTHING PARTY (noun)
  The noun KNOW-NOTHING PARTY has 1 sense:

1. a former political party in the United States; active in the 1850s to keep power out of the hands of immigrants and Roman Catholics

  Familiarity information: KNOW-NOTHING PARTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KNOW-NOTHING PARTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former political party in the United States; active in the 1850s to keep power out of the hands of immigrants and Roman Catholics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

American Party; Know-Nothing Party

Hypernyms ("Know-Nothing Party" is a kind of...):

party; political party (an organization to gain political power)