Zionist


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Zi·on·ism

 (zī′ə-nĭz′əm)
n.
A political movement that supports the maintenance and preservation of the state of Israel as a Jewish homeland, originally arising in the late 1800s with the goal of reestablishing a Jewish homeland in the region of Palestine.

Zi′on·ist adj. & n.
Zi′on·is′tic adj.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.Zionist - a Jewish supporter of Zionism
Jew, Hebrew, Israelite - a person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties
Adj.1.Zionist - relating to or characteristic of Zionism; "the Zionist movement"
2.Zionist - relating to or characteristic of a supporter of Zionism; "the Zionist leader Theodor Herzl"
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Translations

Zionist

[ˈzaɪənɪst]
A. ADJsionista
B. Nsionista mf
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

Zionist

[ˈzaɪənɪst]
adjsioniste
nSioniste mf
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

Zionist

adjzionistisch
nZionist(in) m(f)
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

Zionist

[ˈzaɪənɪst]
1. adjsionistico/a
2. nsionista m/f
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
References in classic literature ?
Brave soldiers leading Zionists, deserving novelists, noble ladies, congested the narrow passage and thrust distinguished elbows into ribs the world would not willingly let break, deeming themselves fortunate if they could see "just a little bit of the rail." Inaudible, but convincing, the great inventor expounded his discovery, and sent his obedient little model of the trains of the future up gradients, round curves, and across a sagging wire.
And the more brutal the Zionist response, the more the world sees the truth about Zionist oppression and tyranny.
After the Zionist media police pulled out its nuclear- powered megaphones, the Grey Lady gave us more proof that she's a Zionist tramp.
(TAP)- Representative of the "Fath" movement in Tunisia, Moutii Kanaan, on Saturday warned the Arab States against normalisation with the Zionist entity.
ISLAMABAD -- Central leader of Pakistan's top Islamic party says Iran is the only country in the world who is supporting the innocent people of Palestine against the Zionist Regime.
Shortly after his death at 94, HaMusach, a literary journal hosted on the Israel National Library's website, published an interview of Gouri by Anat Sharon-Blais and Shiri Lev-Ari that focused on his refusal to accept a prize for "Zionist works of art." In the interview, a lightly edited version of which appears below, as translated by Lonnie Monka, Gouri oscillates strongly between criticisms of contemporary Israel and its politics and his unflinching pride in being a Zionist: "I was born a Zionist, all my life I fought as Zionist, and I will die a Zionist."
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that the Israelis will "taste bitter defeat" and that "the bones of the Zionists will undoubtedly be crushed." Abdollahian, the special assistant to the speaker of the Iranian parliament and a former Iranian deputy foreign minister, claimed that the war in Yemen is a Zionist plot to weaken Saudi Arabia and that the Saudis' collaboration with the Zionists and the Americans is a "path towards division and weakness."
In the rallies the protesters also strongly condemned US decision to relocate its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and recent spate of killings of Palestinians by the Zionist Regime.
Hamid Dabashi | Al Jazeera IF you want to understand the psychopathology at the root of the Zionist psychosis, you must go to the heart of their delusion, like an analyst placing a mentally sick person on a couch and today there is no better place to see that psychotic colonial fixation at work than in an article,~titled,~'Of Course Jerusalem Is Israel's Capital', published (where else?) in the New York Times just hours before Donald Trump's~announcement~that in his August moronic opinion, 'Jerusalem is the capital of Israel'.
NNA - Resigned Justice Minister Ashraf Rifi vowed on Tuesday proceeding with facing the Zionist terrorism and the terrorism of the Syrian regime.