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patriotic
What does patriotic mean?
patriotic (adjective): inspired by love for your country.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use patriotic in a sentence?
- Patriotic sentiment prevailed. (Tatoeba sentence #10557215 by AlanF_US, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce patriotic?
/ˌpeɪtɹiˈɑtɪk/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does patriotic come from?
From French patriotique, from Late Latin patriōticus, from Ancient Greek πατριωτικός (patriōtikós), from πατριώτης (patriṓtēs), equivalent to patriot + -ic.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of patriotic?
Words related to patriotic
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “patriotic” mean?
inspired by love for your country
Right! That's what “patriotic” means.
distant or otherwise inaccessible
Not quite: that's what remote means.
concerning all parts of the world
Not quite: that's what global means.
not divided or shared with others
Not quite: that's what exclusive means.
Which word is closest in meaning to “patriotic”?
white
Not quite: white means something else.
loyal
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large
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small
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