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SUPREMACIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does supremacist mean?
• SUPREMACIST (noun)
The noun SUPREMACIST has 1 sense:
1. a person who advocates the supremacy of some particular group or racial group over all others
Familiarity information: SUPREMACIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who advocates the supremacy of some particular group or racial group over all others
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("supremacist" is a kind of...):
advocate; advocator; exponent; proponent (a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "supremacist"):
white supremacist (a person who believes that the white race is or should be supreme)
Derivation:
supremacy (power to dominate or defeat)
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