'Chauvinist' definitions:
Definition of 'chauvinist'
From: WordNet
noun
A person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind
noun
An extreme bellicose nationalist [syn: chauvinist, jingoist, jingo, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, patrioteer]
Definition of 'Chauvinist'
From: GCIDE
- Chauvinism \Chau"vin*ism\, n. [F. chauvinisme, from Nicolas Chauvin, a character represented as making grotesque and threatening displays of his attachment to his fallen chief, Napoleon I., in 1815 (in the play La Cocarde tricolor, 1831).]
- 1. Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism. [1913 Webster]
- 2. exaggerated and unreasoning partisanship to any group or cause; -- as, male chauvinism, i.e. belief in the superiority of males. [PJC] -- {Chau"vin*ist}, n. & adj. -- {Chau`vin*is"tic}, a. [1913 Webster]
- Note: To have a generous belief in the greatness of one's country is not chauvinism. It is the character of the latter quality to be wildly extravagant, to be fretful and childish and silly, to resent a doubt as an insult, and to offend by its very frankness. --Prof. H. Tuttle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'chauvinist'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bigot,
- chauvin,
- doctrinaire,
- dogmatist,
- fanatic,
- flag waver,
- hard hat,
- hawk,
- hundred-percent American,
- hundred-percenter,
- illiberal,
- intolerant,
- jingo,
- jingoist,
- male chauvinist,
- militarist,
- nationalist,
- patriot,
- patrioteer,
- pig,
- racist,
- sexist,
- superpatriot,
- ultranationalist,
- war dog,
- war hawk,
- warmonger