nationalist leader

Other forms: nationalist leaders

Definitions of nationalist leader

1. noun

   the leader of a nationalist movement
   examples:

   Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

   political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule; an advocate of passive resistance (1869-1948)

   Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

   South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)

   Charles Stewart Parnell

   Irish nationalist leader (1846-1891)

   types:

   American Revolutionary leader

   a nationalist leader in the American Revolution and in the creation of the United States

   type of:

   leader

   a person who rules or guides or inspires others

   nationalist

   an advocate of national independence of or a strong national government