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internationalist

American  
[in-ter-nash-uh-nl-ist] / ˌɪn tərˈnæʃ ə nl ɪst /

noun

  1. an advocate of internationalism.

  2. an expert in international law and relations.

  3. (initial capital letter) a member or adherent of a communist or socialist International.


internationalist British  
/ ˌɪntəˈnæʃənəlɪst /

noun

  1. an advocate of internationalism

  2. a person versed in international law

  3. (capital) a member of an International

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of internationalist

First recorded in 1860–65; international + -ist


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TR was conservative and progressive, internationalist and nationalist, conservationist and hunter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

It is quite another to suggest at an internationalist forum that a G7 ally, Canada, become a state of your nation, eliciting gasps in the audience, and not just from Canadians.

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025

Haass was referring to the more internationalist policies of President George H.W.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2023

But he was never the committed internationalist that some old-guard Republicans had wanted or imagined him to be.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2023

His vigorous denunciation of Utopian cosmopolitanism prevents his being considered an internationalist.

From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

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