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Jingo vs Nationalist - What's the difference?

jingo | nationalist |

As nouns the difference between jingo and nationalist

is that jingo is one who supports policy favouring war while nationalist is nationalist.

jingo

English

Noun

(es)
  • One who supports policy favouring war.
  • * 1897 June 19, (editor), ''Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz ,
    • The fact is that Mr. Roosevelt has always with perfect frankness confessed himself to be what is currently called a Jingo .
  • * 1908 , ,
    • He is the jingo of the universe; he will say, "My cosmos, right or wrong."
  • * 1995 , Bradford Perkins, The Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: The American Search for Opportunity, 1865–1913 ,
    • "We are all jingoes' now," the New York Sun wrote immediately after the 1898 war, "and the head ' jingo is the Hon. William McKinley."

    Derived terms

    * jingoism

    References

    * Spare me all the outrage and "pseudo jingo stuff" about Iran's imprisonment of our troops, said Peter Hitchens in The Mail on Sunday. – Iran frees sailors, The Week , 7 April 2007, Issue 608, page 5. ----

    nationalist

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to nationalism.

    • Derived terms

    * nationalistic

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An advocate of nationalism.