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na•tion•al•ism



Pronunciation: (nash'u-nl-iz"um, nash'nu-liz"-), [key]
—n.
1. national spirit or aspirations.
2. devotion and loyalty to one's own nation; patriotism.
3. excessive patriotism; chauvinism.
4. the desire for national advancement or independence.
5. the policy or doctrine of asserting the interests of one's own nation, viewed as separate from the interests of other nations or the common interests of all nations.
6. an idiom or trait peculiar to a nation.
7. a movement, as in the arts, based upon the folk idioms, history, aspirations, etc., of a nation.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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