white nationalist

noun

plural white nationalists

: one of a group of militant white people who espouse white supremacy (see white supremacy sense 1) and advocate enforced racial segregation

… his vision for the community—an enclave where residents fly "racialist" banners, where they are able to import enough … white nationalists to take control of the town government …

—John Eligon

white nationalism noun

or less commonly White Nationalism

… a far right platform that includes white nationalism and opposition to Israel.

—Mike Sunnucks

Examples of white nationalist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This comes after the white nationalist group vandalized the church in December 2020 during a pro-Trump rally. —Oumou Fofana, Essence, 7 Feb. 2025

And why are people still giving time to a guy who trumpets misogyny and anti-semitism, denies the Holocaust, pals around with white nationalist dweebs, including Donald Trump, and recently made Alex Jones look like a paragon of reason and restraint? —Spin Team, SPIN, 28 Nov. 2024

Carlson been previously criticized for flirting with baseless conspiracy theories ranging from COVID vaccines to the white nationalist Great Replacement conspiracy theory. —Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025

Like many white nationalists, Mathews was influenced by the 1978 novel The Turner Diaries, about a white nationalist character Earl Turner who attempts to overthrow the U.S. government and plots to fly a plane with a nuclear warhead into the Pentagon. —Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1951, in the meaning defined above