- 1a person who wants their country to become independent Scottish nationalists
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- 2(sometimes disapproving) a person who has a great love for and pride in their country; a person who has a feeling that their country is better than any other
nationalist sentimentsSee nationalist in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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