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CHAUVINIST definition: 1. believing or showing an unreasonable belief that your own country or race is the best or most…. Learn more.
1. : an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex. male chauvinism. also : behavior expressive of such an attitude. 2. : undue partiality or attachment to a group or place to which one belongs or has belonged. regional chauvinism. 3. : excessive or blind patriotism compare jingoism.
CHAUVINISM definition: 1. the strong and unreasonable belief that your own country or race is the best or most important…. Learn more.
a person who has an aggressive and unreasonable belief that their own country is better than all others. See chauvinist in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Check pronunciation: chauvinist. Definition of chauvinist noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
Chauvinism ( / ˈʃoʊvɪnɪzəm / SHOH-vih-nih-zəm) is the unreasonable belief in the superiority or dominance of one's own group or people, who are seen as strong and virtuous, while others are considered weak, unworthy, or inferior. [1] .
A chauvinist is someone who blindly and enthusiastically believes in the superiority of his cause or people. If you grew up in New York and refuse to eat at any pizzeria beyond a five-mile radius of the Empire State Building, you could be described as a New York pizza chauvinist.
noun. a person who is aggressively and blindly patriotic, especially one devoted to military glory. a person who believes one gender is superior to the other, as a male chauvinist or a female chauvinist.
chauvinist. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English chau‧vin‧ist /ˈʃəʊvɪnɪst $ ˈʃoʊ-/ noun [ countable] 1 someone, especially a man, who believes that their own sex is better or more important than the other sex He’s a bit of a male chauvinist. a male chauvinist pig (=an insulting name for a male chauvinist) 2 someone who ...
Chauvinism is a strong, unreasonable belief that your own country is more important and morally better than other people's. [ disapproval ] It may also appeal to the latent chauvinism of many ordinary people.
believing or showing an unreasonable belief that your own country or race is the best or most important: The crowd was enthusiastically singing chauvinistic patriotic songs. believing that or behaving as if women are naturally less important, intelligent, or able than men:
