English

Proper noun

Patriot

1. A US surface-to-air missile system.

Noun

Patriot ‎(plural Patriots)

1. (informal) An individual Patriot missile.
2. (US) A person who was in favor of American Independence from Britain during the American Revolution
3. (Canada) Synonym of Patriote ( The devolution of power supporters in Lower Canada of the Canadian Rebellions of 1837-1838 (Patriots' War))
4. (Canada) The devolution of power supporters in Upper Canada of the Canadian Rebellions of 1837-1838 (Patriot War)

Antonyms

• (American Revolution): Loyalist

Translations

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -oːt

Noun

Patriot m ‎(genitive Patrioten, plural Patrioten)

1. patriot

Related terms

• patriotisch
• Patriotismus

English

Noun

patriot ‎(plural patriots)

1. A person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country.
   • Alexander Pope

     Such tears as patriots shed for dying laws.

   • 1901, Chesterton, G. K., The Defendant, page 166:

     “My country, right or wrong”, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober”.

   • 1953, Harris, Sydney J., “Purely Personal Prejudices”, in Strictly Personal, Regnery, page 228:

     The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war.

   • 2013, Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)

     Nothing beats a gunboat. HMS Illustrious glided out of Portsmouth on Monday, past HMS Victory and cheering crowds of patriots. Within a week it will be off Gibraltar, a mere cannon shot from Cape Trafalgar.

2. (archaic) A fellow countryman, a compatriot.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of J. S. Mill's On Liberty to this entry?)

Derived terms

Translations

References

• patriot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

patriot m ‎(plural patriotten, diminutive patriotje n)

1. patriot

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Patriot, from French patriote, from Latin patriota, from Ancient Greek πατριώτης ‎(patriṓtēs).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /patrǐot/
• Hyphenation: pat‧ri‧ot

Noun

patrìot, patriȍt m ‎(Cyrillic spelling патрѝот, патрио̏т)

1. patriot

Declension

Synonyms

• rȍdoljūb
• dȍmoljūb

References

• “patriot” in Hrvatski jezični portal