Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A student, expounder, or upholder of international law.
- noun [capitalized] A member of or a believer in the International.
- noun An upholder of internationalism, in either sense.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who is versed in the principles of international law.
- noun A member of the International; one who believes in, or advocates the doctrines of, the International.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
internationalism - noun An advocate of internationalism
- noun A player representing their country in a team sport (particularly used in Scotland)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of a socialist or communist international
- noun an advocate of internationalism
- adjective influenced by or advocating internationalism
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Examples
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POG's rejection of the alliance with the United Nations would have come as a heavy blow to the League and to Theodoropoulou personally, who had invested an entire political career in internationalist feminist networking and who drew much currency from the specific relationship of the League with the United Nations, which had recently formed a special committee known as the Statute de la femme.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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On the other hand, our greatest anti-internationalist is probably Father Coughlin - he also is a native of Canada.
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I think the man who is, perhaps, our greatest internationalist, is Professor Shotwell of Columbia University.
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Naturally they are entirely satisfactory to Germany and equally naturally they are in this country satisfactory to every pro-German and pacifist and socialist and anti-American so-called internationalist….
How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010
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Perhaps they thought that if they threatened us we would become nervous, that we would immediately recall our internationalist fighters.
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The show of sympathy is partly heartfelt as the 'common people' know when British soldiers die for 'internationalist' politicians they have wasted their blood.
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Hilary and most of the Democratic Party should be indicted, tried, convicted and executed for High Treason - any "internationalist" or any Gun control advocate is a TRAITOR!!
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In doing so, he makes himself look less like a serious, potential participant in a crowded Presidential field, and more like someone who is about to start ranting about the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and George W. Bush's membership in Skull & Bones ... all part of an "internationalist" conspiracy to create a New World Order.
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In doing so, he makes himself look less like a serious, potential participant in a crowded Presidential field, and more like someone who is about to start ranting about the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and George W. Bush's membership in Skull & Bones ... all part of an "internationalist" conspiracy to create a New World Order.
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But for a period of some 30 years, we lacked competent, "internationalist" leadership.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: The Bush Administration: a study in failure, waste, and needless death 2006
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