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Meaning of patriot in English
(Definition of patriot from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
patriot | American Dictionary
US history
A patriot during the American Revolution was a person who believed in or fought for independence from Britain
patriotic
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/ˌpeɪ·triˈɑt̬·ɪk/
Examples of patriot
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Sectional interests were especially powerful, and conquest was driven forward by ambitious colonels, civil servants and professional patriots.
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Neither 'patriot' can reasonably be considered a convinced advocate of democracy.
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This discourse was not only present in different media, but also characterizes descriptions of the patriot.
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It is not clear whether these ' ' patriots ' ' had real evidence for this, or were making a priori assumptions.
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To this effect, we warn all evil-planners to steer clear of any attempts on the person and life of this emerging patriot.
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The serenade begins with a choir of patriots, celebrating the meeting.
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The patriot has to strive for the welfare of the state; and being a patriot was something that could be learned.
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Dilling's books, however, did not come close to revealing fully her ambition to create a personal network of friends, followers, and fellow patriots.
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Serious patriots could peruse the files at their leisure or request information through the mail.
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Alone, the powerful voice of a handful of patriots came to awaken us out of our lethargy.
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Second, it becomes clear that although he was not a nationalist (and certainly not a patriot), he was no straightforward cosmopolitan either.
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Strangely enough, however, though selfstyled patriots of all stripes imagined schooling as indispensable to the republic, schools themselves remained steadfastly local institutions.
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The same work traced ' patriot ' to 1596, but found a source for ' patriotism ' only in 1726.
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The piece is framed by two huge movements for choir, celebrating the patriots and virtues.
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This responded to the unwillingness of creole patriots to include full abolition in their political programmes for independence.
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