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

At the time, many white nationalists in the 1970s and 1980s were disillusioned by the U.S. failure to win the Vietnam War and wanted to exact a kind of revenge. —Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024

Some of them were white nationalist and neo-Nazi accounts or accounts that repeatedly boost conspiracy theories. —David Ingram, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024

Hegseth has tattoos associated with white nationalist movements, including a symbol popular with Christian nationalists referred to as a Jerusalem cross. —Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024

In a podcast hosted by former U.S. Navy Seal Shawn Ryan, Mr. Hegseth said he’d been deemed a white nationalist by his National Guard unit. —Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1951, in the meaning defined above