chauvinist

See also: Chauvinist

English

Etymology

See chauvinism.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

chauvinist (comparative more chauvinist, superlative most chauvinist)

  1. Pertaining to chauvinism.
    • 2006, Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture:
      Today's young women seem to be outdoing the male chauvinist pigs of yesteryear, applauding the "pornification" of other women […]
  2. (derogatory) Chauvinistic; excessively patriotic or heavily biased.

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Noun

chauvinist (plural chauvinists)

  1. (derogatory) A chauvinistic person.
    • 2014, Sadegh Shajari, Chain Reaction and Chaos: Toward Modern Persia, page 28:
      Any one of the three corners could represent one of the three constituents of Iranian tri-polar culture—pan-Islamists, anti-Islam Persian chauvinists and Westernized Islamophobians.

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Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French chauviniste. Piecewise doublet of calvinist.

Pronunciation

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Noun

chauvinist m (plural chauvinisten, diminutive chauvinistje n)

  1. chauvinist

Derived terms

Swedish

Noun

chauvinist c

  1. chauvinist

Declension

Declension of chauvinist
nominative genitive
singular indefinite chauvinist chauvinists
definite chauvinisten chauvinistens
plural indefinite chauvinister chauvinisters
definite chauvinisterna chauvinisternas

References

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