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patriotism meaning

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  • Patriotism is, generally speaking, cultural attachment to one's homeland or devotion to one's country, although interpretations of the term vary with context, geography and political ideology.
  • The English term patriot is first attested in the Elizabethan era, via Middle French from Late Latin (6th century) patriota "countryman", ultimately from Greek πατριώτης (patriōtēs) "countryman", from πατρίς (patris), "fatherland".
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    Definition of patriotism in English Dictionary

  • NounPLpatriotismsPREpatri-SUF-ism
    1. Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one's compatriots; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one's country,.
      1. 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.
    2. The desire to compete with other nations; nationalism.
      1. Patriotism cannot be good. What produces war is the desire for an exclusive good for one’s own nation – that is called patriotism. And so to abolish war, it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism, it is necessary first to become convinced that it is an evil.
  • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
    1. Morphemes
      • Suffixes
        • Words by suffix
          • Words suffixed with -ism
      • Nouns
        • Countable nouns
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      1. fr patriotisme
      2. en patriotisms
      3. fr patriotismes
      Source: Wiktionary

      Meaning of patriotism for the defined word.

      Grammatically, this word "patriotism" is a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun.
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