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Nativist

Definitions: Nativist

Nativist

Adjective

1. Advocating the perpetuation of native societies; "the old nativist prejudice against the foreign businessman"; "the nativistic faith preaches the old values"- C.K.Kluckhohn.

2. Of or relating to or advocating nativism; "nativist theories"; "the traditional controversy between the nativistic and empiristic theories".

Noun

1. A philosopher who subscribes to nativism.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Nativist

Synonym: nativistic (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Nativist

English words defined with "nativist": nativistic. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Nativist

DomainTitle

Books

  • 'America for the Americans': The Nativist Movement in the United States (Twayne's Social Movements Past and Present Series) (reference)

  • Modernism and the Nativist Resistance: Contemporary Chinese Fiction from Taiwan (reference)

  • Nativist Movement (reference)

  • Shades of Right: Nativist and Fascist Politics in Canada, 1920-1940 (reference)

  • The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Nativist

"Nativist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nativist" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%6143,867

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nativist

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

nativist

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Nativist

Language Translations for "nativist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

乡土主义者. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

원주민 보호주의자. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ativistnay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Nativist

Derivations

Words beginning with "nativist": nativistic, nativists. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Nativist"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "nativist" (pronounced nā"tivi'st)
6-t i v i' s tcollectivist.
5-i v i' s trecidivist.
3-i' s tabsurdist, astrophysicist, backlist, baptist, bassist, blacklist, careerist, centrist, chartist, checklist, cheesiest, chemist, clearest, climatologist, conformist, constructionist, consumerist, corporatist, costliest, counterterrorist, cubist, cutest, czarist, defeatist, dramatist, dualist, egotist, essayist, evangelist, expansionist, experimentalist, fatalist, flavorist, flutist, futurist, gradualist, harpist, horticulturist, humanist, jurist, lyrist, minimalist, monarchist, monetarist, moralist, nicest, nudist, optimist, optometrist, parodist, percussionist, perfectionist, pharmacologist, physicist, pinkest, podiatrist, practiced, pragmatist, publicist, purist, realist, reformist, religionist, revisionist, revivalist, royalist, satanist, saxophonist, sensationalist, sexist, soloist, statist, stylist, suffragist, terrorist, trombonist, typist, vaguest.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Nativist

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: visitant.

Words within the letters "a-i-i-n-s-t-t-v"

-1 letter: titians.

-2 letters: isatin, taints, tanist, titans, titian.

-3 letters: antis, intis, saint, satin, savin, stain, stint, tains, taint, tints, titan, titis, vinas, visit, vista, vitta.

-4 letters: ains, aits, anis, anti, ants, inia, inti, nisi, nits, sain, sati, snit, stat, tain, tans, tats, tavs, tins, tint, titi, tits, vain, vans, vast, vats, vina, visa, vita.

-5 letters: ain, ais, ait, ani, ant, att, ins, its, nit, sat, sin, sit, tan, tas, tat, tav, tin, tis, tit, van, vas, vat, via, vis.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-i-n-s-t-t-v"
 

+1 letter: nativists, tantivies, visitants.

 

+2 letters: estivating, estivation, nativistic, nativities, negativist, novitiates, transitive, visitation, vitiations.

 

+3 letters: activations, adventitias, aestivating, aestivation, antitussive, cavitations, estivations, inactivates, initiatives, instigative, investigate, invitations, levitations, motivations, negativists, titivations, vacationist, vaticinates, visitations.

 

+4 letters: adventitious, aestivations, antinovelist, antitussives, antivitamins, captivations, cultivations, deviationist, ditransitive, gravitations, inactivities, intransitive, investigated, investigates, investigator, invitatories, negativistic, negativities, salvationist, transitively, transitivity, vacationists, vaticinators, ventilations, vinaigrettes.

 

+5 letters: adventuristic, antigravities, antinovelists, deactivations, deviationists, ditransitives, eventualities, imitativeness, inactivations, investigating, investigation, investigative, investigators, investigatory, invitationals, multivitamins, reactivations, reinvestigate, remotivations, sovietization, substantivize, vaticinations, vitalizations, vituperations, vocationalist, voluntaristic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Nativist


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 61 74 69 76 69 73 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    .-    -    ..    ...-    ..    ...    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01101001 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#97 &#116 &#105 &#118 &#105 &#115 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0061 0074 0069 0076 0069 0073 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4867867588758586

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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