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US
/ˈpeɪtɹiət/
]
[ UK /pˈætɹɪət/ ]
[ UK /pˈætɹɪət/ ]
NOUN
- one who loves and defends his or her country
How To Use patriot In A Sentence
- To equate Tim McVeigh as a patriot is the mark of a sick and disturbed mind. Think Progress » Fox News host Julie Banderas
- From the past sorrows, we derive our self-respect to love our compatriots.
- Indiscriminate concelebration with Patriotic clergy can't be considered as permitted. Archive 2009-07-01
- True patriotism doesn't exclude an understanding of the patriotism of others.
- Anyone who has once taken up the WORD can never again evade it; a writer is not the detached judge of his compatriots and contemporaries, he is an accomplice to all the evil committed in his native land or by his countrymen. Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture
- It's a bizarre concept that intertwines issues of patriotism and sporting chauvinism.
- They acted out of a conscience that patriots despised but at least could understand.
- Forget the Parthenon and the Acropolis; these days the Patriot Missile launchers unsubtly stationed across the city are the tourist sites du jour.
- Deep down, this great patriot and cricketer has taken no pleasure from one humiliation after another. Times, Sunday Times
- It is a speech that cannot fail to thrill the reader for its noble and patriotic eloquence.