integrationist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.70 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An advocate, supporter and/or practitioner of (social) integration, usually aiming for greater equality.
Example Sentences
- "Instead the legal confrontation took place in the 1950s, when the Southern allegation “that integrationists were Communists” carried far greater resonance than it would have a decade earlier, and when “the power of the left to implement desegregation” — as Ms. Gilmore imagines it — no longer existed."
Etymology
Etymology tree English integration 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 integrationist From integration + -ist.