assimilationist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.67 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
6
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An advocate of the policy or practice of the assimilation of immigrant or other minority cultures into a mainstream culture.
adj
Of or pertaining to assimilationism; promoting or advocating assimilationism.
Example Sentences
- "Spanish-language education is not favored by assimilationist parents of Latino children in the US."
- "To the assimilationists, American Jews have not merely acculturated — they have assimilated."
- "The conflict between melting-pot assimilationists and cultural pluralists betrays a fundamental uncertainty about the meaning of American nationhood, and about the role ethnicity plays in it."
- "The one area where there was at least some agreement between assimilationists and Zionists was Palestine."
- "I wonder: if it had not been for GCN, would I now be the one who settles for the semi-closeted, factionalized world that Bay Windows and its ilk define as Shangri-la? Perhaps. What is certain, however, is that you have never jettisoned concern fror anybody for the sake of popularity and (gulp) assimilationist marketability."
- "Shortly after Chiang Kaishek came to power, however, the GMD^([Guomindang]) once again withdrew its support for self-determination and pursued a more assimilationist strategy."
Etymology
Etymology tree English assimilation Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English assimilationist From assimilation + -ist.