white nationalist

noun

plural white nationalists

: one of a group of militant white people who espouse white supremacy (see white supremacy sense 1) and advocate enforced racial segregation

Since 9/11, white nationalists … have accounted for more terrorist attacks than any other group in the United States.

—Alan Mikhail

white nationalism noun

or less commonly White Nationalism

… a far right platform that includes white nationalism and opposition to Israel.

—Mike Sunnucks

Examples of white nationalist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Not every kid at my school is a white nationalist. —Eli Thompson, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2025

Last week, Carlson hosted a prominent white nationalist named Nick Fuentes on his show. —Geoff Brumfiel, NPR, 7 Nov. 2025

Those fissures burst into the open last week, when Tucker Carlson conducted a friendly interview with the cheerfully white nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes. —Max Tani, semafor.com, 3 Nov. 2025

Fuentes has espoused Holocaust denial and white nationalist ideology. —Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1951, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for white nationalist

• internationalist
• rationalist