Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

partitionist

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: par-ti-tion-ist
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A political partisan who favours geopolitical partitioning.

noun

A political partisan who favours the partition of the province of Quebec with the western, southern portions and Montreal forming a separate province or country from the rest of Quebec.

Canadian usage

Example Sentences

"That such antics were really a disguising tactic meant to mask the fact that ministers de Brun and McGuinness are operating a partitionist Stormont government with British civil servants may fool some of the more gullible Shinners, but few were around the north Down and east Belfast fortresses of Education and Health to notice the butcher's apron fluttering outside on millennium day."

Etymology

From partition + -ist.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: partition

Usage

Canadian usage

Inflected Forms

partitionists (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

separatist independentist sovereigntist sovereignist autonomist nationalist federalist

Questions

What does partitionist mean?: A political partisan who favours geopolitical partitioning.
Where does partitionist come from?: From partition + -ist.

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