separatist
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7.2
- adjective
- /ˈsɛpəˌrətɪst/
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separatista
- The separatist movement aims to create an independent nation for the local ethnic group.
- separatist movements
- separatist nationalism
- separatist tendencies
And don't worry, it's just the separatist region of Ukraine.
- And don't worry, it's just the separatist region of Ukraine.
- So the Chinese use this as a tool to silence some governments claiming that there is a, a, a organized separatist movement.
Examples
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Moldavia's Supreme Soviet has almost equal numbers of separatist and pro-Moscow deputies.
Academic text (1990) -
The development gave rise to a separatist concept of Queer Nationality.
Academic text (1995) -
Small political movements were born to advance the separatist dream and died.
Academic text (2013) -
And so there should be this separatist agenda that he he had gotten behind.
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One of the separatist ideas was the back to Africa refrain.
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And don't worry, it's just the separatist region of Ukraine.
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All of this gave real impetus to the separatist movement in Kashmir.
Academic text (1995) -
In Sri Lanka, the state's policies over time have brought on separatist nationalism.
Academic text (1997) -
A good deal of popular rhetoric presumes a current separatist premise of civilian control of the military.
Academic text (1996) -
A radical separatist party was creeping forward in the polls, promising to shut off interstellar trade.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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9.8
A person who supports keeping people of different races separate
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8.5
A person who wants their region to leave a country
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8.2
A person who wants part of a country to leave and become independent
A person who supports dividing a country into separate states for political reasons
A person who leaves a group for political or religious reasons
A person who causes a split in a religious group
A rule or person that causes groups to be kept apart
A person who supports separating people by race
Antonyms
Compounds
- Offensive
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9.3
A person who wants white people to live apart from people of other races
How Separatist
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Separatist comes from the Latin word separare, which means 'to separate'. It shares the same root as the common word separate, so a separatist idea is one that wants things kept apart or independent.