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anti-nationalist

adjective
an·​ti-na·​tion·​al·​ist | \ ˌan-tē-ˈnash-nə-list How to pronounce anti-nationalist (audio) , -ˈna-shə-nə-list, ˌan-tī-\
variants: or less commonly antinationalist

Definition of anti-nationalist

: opposed to nationalism or to a nationalist movement or government … they have publicly declared their anti-nationalist, anti-war and individual standpoint …— Dubravka Ugresic

Other Words from anti-nationalist

anti-nationalist or less commonly antinationalist noun
This is why anti-nationalists cannot see anything good in the nation-state and customarily understand nationalism as ethnic hatred, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and other equally abominable phenomena. — T. Mastnak

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1863, in the meaning defined above

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