🇬🇧 Nationalist meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A nationalist is someone who feels very strong pride for their own country and believes it is better than other countries. They cheer for their country, defend it, and sometimes think their country is always right, even when it might make mistakes. Being proud of your country can be good, but a nationalist can sometimes forget that other countries and people are important too.

When asked to draw the whole world, the nationalist just drew his country really big and wrote, “The Rest: Too Small To See.”

The young nationalist yelled, “My country is the best!” so loudly that the globe on the teacher’s desk tried to roll away in fear.

The baby nationalist waved a flag before she could even wave goodbye to grandma.

The cat became a nationalist and only agreed to nap on the part of the world map where its country was drawn.

The squirrel nationalist stored all its acorns only under trees from its own country and refused “foreign nuts.”

A man threw a red flag from his roof and drummed his chest. The nationalist sang, the nationalist shouted, the nationalist pushed a neighbor aside, the nationalist stomped and waved. A small woman smiled, lifted the flag, and planted it gently for the town to use. The nationalist sat down, surprised, and finally joined the quiet crowd.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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