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supremacist

nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,288 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: supremacists

A supremacist is somebody who believes their own group should rule. A white supremacist.

It names a political belief rather than a prejudice, since the claim is about who should hold power. A supremacist movement always needs an enemy to define itself against.

Definitions of supremacist

  1. 1nounsupremacistSomebody who believes their own group should rule.B2+

    “The court described him as a supremacist recruiting online.”

supremacist is a person.

Where it comes from

From supremacy + -ist.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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supremacist in the wild

  • The Proud Boys are considered an implicitly white supremacist organization, despite denying their association with white supremacy.

    White supremacy

  • Black supremacy is a racial supremacist belief which maintains that black people are inherently superior to people of other races.

    Black supremacy

  • The National Alliance is a white supremacist, neo-Nazi political organization founded by William Luther Pierce in 1974 and based in Mill Point, West Virginia.

    National Alliance (United States)

  • For example, it sends white supremacist pamphlets to rural communities in Pennsylvania and it funded the distribution of a white power music CD in 2007.

    Kingdom Identity Ministries

  • David Eden Lane was an American neo-Nazi and a co-founder of the white supremacist organization The Order.

    David Lane (white supremacist)

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

  • supremacy