nationalist leader
- noun
- /ˈnæʃənəlɪst ˈlidər/
- During the rally, the nationalist leader inspired thousands with a speech about self-determination.
- secular nationalist leader
Examples
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The nationalist leader called for unity among citizens to push for greater autonomy from foreign influence.
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Nationalist leaders come to believe that if the Irish people are to be set free, they need an ideal to inspire them.
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Nationalist leaders quickly replaced the colonial administrators as rulers in the new political dispensation.
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Many verses, however, continue to praise nationalist leaders and to extol the cultural revitalization movement and its leaders.
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The Indian Nationalist leaders never realized that similar, in fact more horrendous, intolerance was practiced in India because of caste.
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In 1938, the vulnerability of China's eastern coastal cities to Japanese bombers led Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek to select the remote city as his wartime capital.
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With the rise of nationalism, the entire political community was united in contesting the hegemonic interests of the colonizers, and the nationalist leaders who championed the cause of independence enjoyed the support of most factions of the political community.
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In 1936, trumped-up charges under the wartime Sedition Act of 1918 were brought against Albizu Campos and other Nationalist leaders, resulting in their imprisonment for almost a decade in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta.
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Palestinians view him as an influential nationalist leader fighting for their rights and independence.
How Nationalist
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'leader of a nationalist movement' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'nationalist' (a person advocating national sovereignty) with 'leader' (a person who leads). This straightforward noun–noun composition follows common compositional patterns across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can reliably infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Nationalist leader combines nationalist (a person who strongly supports their nation) and leader (someone who guides a group). Imagine someone at the front holding the country's flag and guiding people who want more independence, and you can see why it means 'the leader of a nationalist movement'.