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

… his vision for the community—an enclave where residents fly "racialist" banners, where they are able to import enough … white nationalists to take control of the town government …

—John Eligon

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

AfriForum is a special interest group for Afrikaners, white descendants of Dutch settlers in South Africa, that has been described by scholars and civil rights organizations as white nationalist. —Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2025

In 2018, when CNN reported that Darren Beattie, then a White House speechwriter, had spoken at an event that also featured a white nationalist, he was fired. —Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2025

Yet the party has direct links to white nationalists and neo-Nazis, to the point where it has been put under surveillance by German intelligence. —Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 19 Mar. 2025

The attacks, at high schools in Madison, Wis., and Nashville, Tenn., defy categories that law enforcement and researchers have long used to understand radicalization pathways, such as radical Islamist terrorism and white nationalist terrorism. —Odette Yousef, NPR, 8 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1951, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for white nationalist

• internationalist
• rationalist