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patriotpat‧ri‧ot /ˈpætriət, -triɒt, ˈpeɪ- $ ˈpeɪtriət, -triɑːt/ noun [countable] patriotOrigin: 1500-1600 French patriote, from Late Latin, from Greek, from patrios ‘of your father’, from pater ‘father’ - He is a patriot of the first order, willing to sacrifice personal justice for the red, white and blue.
- He was especially interested in the patriots.
- Perhaps it is because of a hearty dislike of chauvinism and exaggerated nationalism that I have not become an intense patriot.
- Pinochet called the convicted man a patriot.
- The patriots were having trouble holding her fast.
- The Presbyterians had found it easy to be patriots for many reasons.
- They clashed at parties and at country house weekends with fellow guests who might be termed patriots.
- This could be interpreted in different ways, as later patriots were to find to their cost.
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