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Chauvinist

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Noun

1. chauvinist

a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind

2. chauvinist, flag-waver, hundred-percenter, jingo, jingoist, patrioteer

an extreme bellicose nationalist

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Chauvinist

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noun
1. 
aggressive or fanatical patriotism; jingoism
2. 
enthusiastic devotion to a cause
3. 
smug irrational belief in the superiority of one's own race, party, sex, etc
male chauvinism

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Chauvinist

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noun
1. 
militant, unreasoning, and boastful devotion to one's country; jingoism
2. 
unreasoning devotion to one's race, sex, etc. with contempt for other races, the opposite sex, etc.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Chauvinist

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n.
1. Militant devotion to and glorification of one's country; fanatical patriotism.
2. Prejudiced belief in the superiority of one's own gender, group, or kind: "the chauvinism ... of making extraterrestrial life in our own image" (Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr.)

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