PATRIOT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does patriot mean? 

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

1. one who loves and defends his or her country

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PATRIOT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One who loves and defends his or her country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

nationalist; patriot

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

national; subject (a person who owes allegiance to that nation)

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

chauvinist; flag-waver; hundred-percenter; jingo; jingoist; patrioteer (an extreme bellicose nationalist)

Instance hyponyms:

Garibaldi; Giuseppe Garibaldi (Italian patriot whose conquest of Sicily and Naples led to the formation of the Italian state (1807-1882))

Gonne; Maud Gonne (Irish patriot and a founder of the Sinn Fein (1865-1953))

Kosciusko; Kosciuszko; Tadeusz Andrzej Bonawentura Kosciuszko; Thaddeus Kosciusko (Polish patriot and soldier who fought with Americans in the American Revolution (1746-1817))

Giuseppe Mazzini; Mazzini (Italian nationalist whose writings spurred the movement for a unified and independent Italy (1805-1872))

 Context examples 

An austere patriot's passion for his fatherland!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We visited the tomb of the illustrious Hampden and the field on which that patriot fell.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Why, there is hardly a foot of soil in all this region that has not been enriched by the blood of men, patriots or invaders.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In old days there were stirring times, when the Austrian and the Hungarian came up in hordes, and the patriots went out to meet them—men and women, the aged and the children too—and waited their coming on the rocks above the passes, that they might sweep destruction on them with their artificial avalanches.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)