patriotism
nounEtymology
From patriot + -ism.
Definitions
Love of one's country
Love of one's country; devotion to the welfare of one's compatriots; passion which inspires one to serve one's country.
- That public virtue, which among the ancients was denominated patriotism, is derived from a strong sense of our own interest in the preservation and prosperity of the free government of which we are members.
- In the hour of death we shall have the consolation to see established in the land of our fathers the most wonderful work of wisdom and disinterested patriotism that has ever yet appeared on the globe.
- The subject of his play was the fate of Agis, the young and heroic King of Sparta: it gave the ideal of patriotism, relieved by the tenderness of sorrow, and the fidelity of love.
The actions of a patriot.
The desire to compete sharply with, and perhaps also dominate, other nations
The desire to compete sharply with, and perhaps also dominate, other nations; nationalism.
- Near-synonyms: chauvinism, superpatriotism
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at patriotism. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at patriotism. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
8 hops · closes at patriotism
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA