Other forms: patriots
A patriot is somebody who loves and stands up for their country. A true patriot, patriots and traitors, a patriotic duty.
The word is claimed by every side of every argument, which is why it settles nothing — each side calls itself the patriot and the other something else. Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel was Johnson's warning about the word rather than about the feeling.
1nounpatriotSomebody who loves and stands up for their country.
“He saw himself as a patriot who would defend his country against any enemy.”
patriot is a person.
Greek patriotes means a fellow countryman, from patris, a fatherland, from pater, a father.
Proto-Indo-European
*peh₂-
Ancient Greek
πατριώτης — of the same country
Latin
patriōta — fellow countryman
Middle French
patriote
English, today
patriot
Built from
From Middle French patriote, from Latin patriōta (“fellow countryman”) from the Ancient Greek πατριώτης (“of the same country”), from πατρίς (“father land", "country”), from πατήρ (“father”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA