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Meaning of "chauvinism" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CHAUVINISM

From French chauvinisme, after Nicolas Chauvin, legendary French soldier under Napoleon, noted for his vociferous and unthinking patriotism.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CHAUVINISM

chauvinism  [ˈʃəʊvɪˌnɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHAUVINISM

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Chauvinism is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CHAUVINISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Chauvinism

Chauvinism, in its original meaning, is an exaggerated patriotism and a belligerent belief in national superiority and glory. Its eponym is a seemingly apocryphal French soldier Nicolas Chauvin, who was badly wounded in the Napoleonic wars. He received a pension for his injuries but it was not enough to live on. After Napoleon abdicated, Chauvin was a fanatical Bonapartist despite the unpopularity of this view in Bourbon Restoration France. His single-minded blind devotion to his cause, despite neglect by his faction and harassment by its enemies, started the use of the term. By extension, it has come to include an extreme and unreasoning partisanship on behalf of any group to which one belongs, especially when the partisanship includes malice and hatred towards rival groups. Jingoism is the British parallel form of this French word, but its meaning has not expanded beyond nationalism in the same way that the word chauvinism has. A contemporary use of the term in English is in the phrase male chauvinism....

Definition of chauvinism in the English dictionary

The first definition of chauvinism in the dictionary is aggressive or fanatical patriotism; jingoism. Other definition of chauvinism is enthusiastic devotion to a cause. Chauvinism is also smug irrational belief in the superiority of one's own race, party, sex, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CHAUVINISM


alpinism
ˈælpɪˌnɪzəm
brominism
ˈbrəʊmɪˌnɪzəm
Calvinism
ˈkælvɪˌnɪzəm
cretinism
ˈkrɛtɪˌnɪzəm
Darwinism
ˈdɑːwɪˌnɪzəm
determinism
dɪˈtɜːmɪˌnɪzəm
diclinism
ˈdaɪklɪˌnɪzəm
ecofeminism
ˌiːkəʊˈfɛmɪˌnɪzəm
feminism
ˈfɛmɪˌnɪzəm
Hellenism
ˈhɛlɪˌnɪzəm
hyperinsulinism
ˌhaɪpərˈɪnsjʊlɪˌnɪzəm
illuminism
ɪˈluːmɪˌnɪzəm
indeterminism
ˌɪndɪˈtɜːmɪˌnɪzəm
Jainism
ˈdʒaɪˌnɪzəm
Latinism
ˈlætɪˌnɪzəm
Leninism
ˈlɛnɪˌnɪzəm
Philistinism
ˈfɪlɪstɪˌnɪzəm
Stalinism
ˈstɑːlɪˌnɪzəm
strychninism
ˈstrɪknɪˌnɪzəm
vulpinism
ˈvʌlpɪˌnɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHAUVINISM

chaudfroid
chaufer
chauffer
chauffeur
chauffeur-driven car
chauffeured
chauffeuse
chaulmoogra
chaulmugra
chaumer
chaunt
chaunter
chauntress
chausses
chaussure
chautauqua
chauvinist
chauvinist pig
chauvinistic
chauvinistically

WORDS THAT END LIKE CHAUVINISM

actinism
albinism
antifeminism
Brahminism
caffeinism
diactinism
economic determinism
griffinism
Jacobinism
libertinism
luminism
male chauvinism
mandarinism
Marxism-Leninism
mechanism
Molinism
Neo-Darwinism
nicotinism
post-feminism
routinism
terminism

Synonyms and antonyms of chauvinism in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «chauvinism» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CHAUVINISM

Find out the translation of chauvinism to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of chauvinism from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «chauvinism» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

沙文主义
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

chovinismo
570 millions of speakers

English

chauvinism
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वर्चस्व
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الشوفينية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

шовинизм
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

chauvinismo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অন্ধ দেশহিতৈষিতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chauvinisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Chauvinisme
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Chauvinismus
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

優越主義
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

우월
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Chauvinism
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lòng yêu nước
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பேரினவாதம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नैराश्य
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

şovenizm
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sciovinismo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

szowinizm
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

шовінізм
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

șovinism
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σωβινισμού
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

chauvinisme
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

chauvinismens
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sjåvinisme
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of chauvinism

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CHAUVINISM»

The term «chauvinism» is regularly used and occupies the 92.661 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CHAUVINISM» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «chauvinism» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «chauvinism» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about chauvinism

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4 QUOTES WITH «CHAUVINISM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word chauvinism.
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Emma Bonino
The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.
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Alija Izetbegovic
Bosnia is a complicated country: three religions, three nations and those 'others'. Nationalism is strong in all three nations; in two of them there are a lot of racism, chauvinism, separatism; and now we are supposed to make a state out of that.
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Said Musa
Independence did not mean chauvinism and narrow nationalism.
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Anne Sullivan
Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHAUVINISM»

Discover the use of chauvinism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to chauvinism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Welfare Chauvinism East and West: Romania and France
In recent decades we have witnessed the rise of extreme right-wing parties in many polities across Eastern and Western Europe, and I argue that this it is not a mere coincidence.
Florin N. Fesnic, 2008
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Chauvinism Returns: Death To The Metro-Sexual
Women, we are sick of society telling usthat we can't act like men!Well, MEN are back, and we shall ruleagain!The first thing we shall do is KILL the Metro-Sexual!Then we shall rule again!
Kevin guest, 2012
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Social Currents in Eastern Europe: The Sources and ...
18. Civil. Society. and. Uncivil. Chauvinism. I do not subscribe to the common notion that the ethnic hatreds and chauvinisms presently visible in Eastern Europe were there all along, but repressed by communist power, and that as soon as that ...
Sabrina P. Ramet, 1995
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Post-Mao Maoism: The ideology and policy of great-power ...
tions connected with an attempted coup in Indonesia , the Indo-Pakistani military conflict, and the struggle of the peoples of Indochina for their national independence and social progress. According to Beijing's designs, these actions,  ...
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Culture of Intolerance: Chauvinism, Class, and Racism in the ...
This timely book shows that a series of arbitrary misperceptions and inappropriate assumptions in American culture generate racism, the enormous gap between rich and poor, and a host of other social problems.
Mark Nathan Cohen, 1998
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Ethnic Chauvinism: The Reactionary Impulse
Decries the inherent tribalism and segregationist tendencies of current arguments for ethnic pluralism and the integrity of ethnic neighborhoods and calls for a celebration of universally shared values and creative individualism rather than ...
Orlando Patterson, 1977
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Misogyny: The Male Malady
Semantics: Misogyny and Male Chauvinism As I perceive it, misogyny is not the same as simple male political dominance, which we might distinguish semantically as ''male chauvinism.'' For heuristic purposes, I would like to make a  ...
David D. Gilmore, 2011
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Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage
In English (though not in French) it has developed a range of extended uses signifying other kinds of excessive loyalty or prejudice, including cultural chauvinism, economic chauvinism, ethnic (and racial) chauvinism, religious chauvinism, ...
Robert Allen, 2008
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Intergroup Relations in States of the Former Soviet Union: ...
In other words, all these new scores are sums of the summated scores of the items constituting the original scales.8 The range of the summated scales runs from 10 (low chauvinism, apprehension, and exclusion) to 50 (high chauvinism, ...
Louk Hagendoorn, Hub Linssen, Sergei Tumanov, 2013
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Garner's Modern American Usage
Today male chauvinism, which (as a phrase, not a phenomenon) dates back to the late 1960s, is something ofa cliché, being the word's most frequent application—e.g.: “In 1999, the socialist-feminist magazine Mother Jones, hardly a bastion ...
Bryan Garner, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHAUVINISM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term chauvinism is used in the context of the following news items.
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Presidential Contender Jim Webb Almost Beat a Man to Death, Aide …
... Inside Reagan's Navy, presents Webb as a pugnacious egomaniac with a streak of male chauvinism, a boulder-sized chip on his shoulder, ... «Daily Beast, Jul 15»
2
Exclusively Inclusive: Holy Contradiction in a Hindu World {Guest Post}
For too much of its history, practitioners of the world's oldest existing major religion have engaged in chauvinism towards other religions that ... «Patheos, Jul 15»
3
Europe's crisis proves Israel is no 'anachronism'...writes Ben Cohen
Similar discontent, expressed through communal chauvinism and exclusivist nationalism, is visible in the east and west of the continent, from ... «J-Wire Jewish Australian News Service, Jul 15»
4
No One Is A Greater Russophobe Than Putin – OpEd
It has managed to convince everyone that Russiannness is a synonym for archaic thinking, obscurantism and chauvinism and that anyone who ... «Eurasia Review, Jul 15»
5
I'm Not Interested In Guys Who Don't Read Books By Women
It's not a marker of utter sociopathy, nor of intractable chauvinism, but to me it reads as slightly small-minded, slightly unthinking, slightly boring. «BuzzFeed News, Jul 15»
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How gay marriage paves the way for legal polygamy
Now Rauch wants to bring back the religious chauvinism of Christian monogamy and a civilizational project to encourage poorer women ... «The Week Magazine, Jul 15»
7
Alan Grayson drafts 'new Declaration of Independence' from bigotry …
“We declare our independence from racism, sexism, homophobia, language discrimination and chauvinism. Everyone has equal rights, ... «Washington Times, Jul 15»
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“Women are people, got it?”: English women's soccer team quickly …
... another illustration of why it's generally better (and often the easiest way to avoid public displays of sexist chauvinism) for brands not to tweet, ... «Salon, Jul 15»
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13 Anti-Japan Tweets From the Women's World Cup Final Reveal …
... World Cup final between the United States and Japan, the U.S. scored a decisive 5-2 victory, but "patriotic" chauvinism at its best was thriving ... «Mic, Jul 15»
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Sena's new normal
Many states have had politics of regional-linguistic chauvinism at some point — for instance, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Punjab. «The Indian Express, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Chauvinism [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/chauvinism>. May 2024 ».
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