Segregationist

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who supports or believes in segregation.

    "Her [Rosa Parks'] arrest launched a 381-day Montgomery bus boycott in which 40,000 Black people, mostly all working people, fought the segregationist bosses."

  2. 2
    someone who believes the racial groups should be kept apart wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Causing or promoting segregation.

    "In that way, all integrationist Judaisms differ from all segregationist ones."

Synonyms

All synonyms
apartheidistapartheidistsegregatorsegregatorsequestratorsequestrator

Example

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"Her [Rosa Parks'] arrest launched a 381-day Montgomery bus boycott in which 40,000 Black people, mostly all working people, fought the segregationist bosses."

Etymology

From segregation + -ist.

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