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

The club Penn’s character wants to join is comprised of elites who are unabashedly Christian white nationalist, and one of their meetings was partially filmed at the Sacramento, California, mansion where Ronald Reagan once lived. —Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025

Then, Zöe and Jake discuss the surge in popularity of white nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes, who has leveraged the vacuum left behind by Charlie Kirk's death to break into the mainstream. —Zoë Schiffer, Wired News, 27 Sep. 2025

Currently, the Department of Homeland Security is using white nationalist artworks from America’s past to promote its schemes. —Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025

Tess Crowley—The Deseret News/AP Some have attempted to draw a link between Robinson and the far-right Groyper movement, a decentralized group of white nationalists who follow Nick Fuentes and coalesce online around obscure and extremist meme culture. —Richard Hall, Time, 13 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1951, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for white nationalist

• internationalist
• rationalist