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Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.
Nawal El Saadawi

Meaning of "imperialist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IMPERIALIST

imperialist  [ɪmˈpɪərɪəlɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IMPERIALIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Imperialist is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES IMPERIALIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

imperialist

Imperialism

Imperialism, as it is defined by the Dictionary of Human Geography, is an unequal human and territorial relationship, usually in the form of an empire, based on ideas of superiority and practices of dominance, and involving the extension of authority and control of one state or people over another." Lewis Samuel Feuer identifies two major subtypes of imperialism; the first is the "regressive imperialism" identified with pure conquest, unequivocal exploitation, extermination or reductions of undesired peoples, and settlement of desired peoples into those territories. The second type identified by Feuer is "progressive imperialism" that is founded upon a cosmopolitan view of humanity, that promotes the spread of civilization to allegedly backward societies to elevate living standards and culture in conquered territories, and allowance of a conquered people to assimilate into the imperial society, an example being the British Empire which claimed to give their "citizens" a number of advantages. The term as such primarily has been applied to Western political and economic dominance in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Definition of imperialist in the English dictionary

The first definition of imperialist in the dictionary is of or relating to the policy or practice of extending a state's rule over other territories. Other definition of imperialist is of or relating to an instance or policy of aggressive behaviour by one state against another. Imperialist is also of or relating to the extension or attempted extension of authority, influence, power, etc, by any person, country, institution, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IMPERIALIST


aerialist
ˈɛərɪəlɪst
antimaterialist
ˌæntɪməˈtɪərɪəlɪst
antirealist
ˌæntɪˈrɪəlɪst
cerealist
ˈsɪərɪəlɪst
curialist
ˈkjʊərɪəlɪst
editorialist
ˌɛdɪˈtɔːrɪəlɪst
hyperrealist
ˌhaɪpəˈrɪəlɪst
industrialist
ɪnˈdʌstrɪəlɪst
managerialist
ˌmænɪˈdʒɪərɪəlɪst
materialist
məˈtɪərɪəlɪst
memorialist
mɪˈmɔːrɪəlɪst
mercurialist
mɜːˈkjʊərɪəlɪst
ministerialist
ˌmɪnɪˈstɪərɪəlɪst
neorealist
ˌniːəʊˈrɪəlɪst
photorealist
ˌfəʊtəʊˈrɪəlɪst
pictorialist
pɪkˈtɔːrɪəlɪst
realist
ˈrɪəlɪst
serialist
ˈsɪərɪəlɪst
superrealist
ˌsuːpəˈrɪəlɪst
territorialist
ˌterɪˈtɔːrɪəlɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IMPERIALIST

imperia
imperial
imperial gallon
imperial preference
imperial system
Imperial War Museum
imperialism
imperialistic
imperialistically
imperially
imperialness
imperil
imperilled
imperilling
imperilment
imperious
imperiously
imperiousness
imperishability
imperishable

WORDS THAT END LIKE IMPERIALIST

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brutalist
capitalist
centralist
finalist
fundamentalist
generalist
hospitalist
idealist
journalist
mentalist
minimalist
nationalist
naturalist
Orientalist
photojournalist
removalist
sensationalist
socialist
specialist
vocalist

Synonyms and antonyms of imperialist in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «imperialist» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IMPERIALIST

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

Translator English - Chinese

帝国主义的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

imperialista
570 millions of speakers

English

imperialist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

साम्राज्यवादी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إمبريالية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

империалистическая
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

imperialista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সাম্রাজ্যবাদী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

impérialiste
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Imperialis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

imperialistisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

帝国主義の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

제국주의자의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Imperialis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thời vua chúa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஏகாதிபத்திய
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

साम्राज्यवादी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

emperyalist
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

imperialista
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

imperialistyczna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

імперіалістична
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

imperialist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ιμπεριαλιστική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

imperialistiese
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

imperialistiska
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

imperialistiske
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of imperialist

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IMPERIALIST»

The term «imperialist» is regularly used and occupies the 62.617 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IMPERIALIST» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «imperialist» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «imperialist» 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 imperialist

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8 QUOTES WITH «IMPERIALIST»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word imperialist.
1
Matt Damon
Bond is part of the system. He's an imperialist and a misogynist, and he laughs at killing people, and he sits there slugging martinis. It'll never be the same thing as this, because Bourne is a guy who is against the establishment, who is paranoid and on the run. I just think fundamentally they're just very different things.
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Richard Holbrooke
I'm not a wide-eyed imperialist who wants to see Americans manning outposts all over the world. Not outposts to freedom in the cold war cliche, but islands of stability and seas of ethnic strife. That is not what anyone should feel comfortable seeing Americans doing.
3
Kim Jong Il
Imperialist aid is a noose of plunder and subjugation, aimed at robbing 10 and even 100 things for one thing that is given.
4
C. L. R. James
Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
5
Nikita Khrushchev
All the sparrows on the rooftops are crying about the fact that the most imperialist nation that is supporting the colonial regime in the colonies is the United States of America.
6
Nawal El Saadawi
Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.
7
Edward Said
Since the time of Homer every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric.
8
Donald Sutherland
Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IMPERIALIST»

Discover the use of imperialist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to imperialist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Imperialism and the Anti-Imperialist Mind
In this major work, Lewis S. Feuer examines critical distinctions between progressive and regressive imperialism.
Lewis Samuel Feuer, 1989
2
On Imperialist Globalization
In two speeches, Fidel Castro argues against globalization as an imperialist world order.
Fidel Castro, 1999
3
The Imperialist Imagination: German Colonialism and Its Legacy
The first anthology of essays to address colonial and postcolonial issues in German history, culture, and literature
Sara Friedrichsmeyer, Sara Lennox, Susanne Zantop, 1998
4
The Imperialist Imaginary: Visions of Asia and the Pacific ...
The Anti-Imperialist League, formed on November ,, looked to return the political dimension to the theory of imperialism. The Anti-Imperialist League brought together an unholy alliance of that captain of irony, Mark Twain, captain of ...
John Eperjesi, 2014
5
Beautiful Imperialist: China Perceives America, 1972-1990
From President Nixon's historic visit to China in 1972 to the aftermath of the Tiananmen tragedy, this book examines the changing perceptions of the United States articulated by China's "America Watchers, " whose occupation is to interpret ...
David L. Shambaugh, 1993
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The Imperialist
Sympathetic, humorous, and wonderfully detailed, The Imperialist is an astute analysis of the paradoxes of Canadian nationhood, as relevant today as when the novel was first published in 1904. From the Paperback edition.
Sara Jeannette Duncan, 2010
7
Historiography of India's Partition: An Analysis of ...
An Attempt Has Been Made In This Book To Examine The Writings Of The Oxbridge Scholars Who Have Based Their Studies On Different Assumptions And Have Tried To Cover Various Issues Related To The Partition Of India.
Viśva Mohana Pāṇḍeya, 2003
8
US Expansionism: The Imperialist Urge in the 1890s
A final section of the book examines the anti-imperialist opposition inspired by the new policy, and the ensuing debates about the proper role of American power.
David Healy, 2011
9
Harvard, urban imperialist
This book argues against increasing land use in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from a socialist viewpoint.
Anti-Expansion Anti-ROTC Strike Steering Committee, 1969
10
A Caricature of Marxism and Imperialist Economism
This translation is taken from Volume 23 of V.I. Lenin's "Collected Works" in 45 volumes.
V.I. Lenin, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IMPERIALIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term imperialist is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Imperialist' US vows to press homosexuality on poor African nations …
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 16, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) –The United States is acting like a neo-colonial power when it tries to push homosexuality ... «Lifesite, Jul 15»
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'Imperialist' US Vows to Press Homosexuality on Poor African …
'Imperialist' US Vows to Press Homosexuality on Poor African Nations. By Steve Weatherbe, LIfe Site News On July 17, 2015. photo via Flickr/Creative ... «Crossmap, Jul 15»
3
Ariel Cohen: Putin explores legal loopholes to take back the Baltic …
It's the starkest example of Moscow's neo-imperialist foreign policy so far. However, even more worrisome trends have emerged. Read more ... «Kyiv Post, Jul 15»
4
Report of RS21 meeting on Europe and Q&A - Workers' Liberty
There is an imperialist, big power bullying dimension to the EU, but it is not a colonial empire. It reflects the fact that capitalism in Europe long ... «Workers' Liberty, Jul 15»
5
Inside China: Stock market crash blamed on U.S. conspiracy …
“For a very long period,” Mao wrote, “U.S. imperialism laid greater stress than other imperialist countries on activities in the sphere of spiritual ... «Washington Times, Jul 15»
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No More Tropical Fish | Pedro A. Freyre - Huffington Post
The Cuban propaganda machine works overtime labeling the United States the imperialist archenemy of Cuba and all developing nations and ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
7
Japanese government pushes militarist legislation amid mass protests
... domestic and international implications of openly pursuing the same imperialist policies that led to the catastrophes of the Second World War. «World Socialist Web Site, Jul 15»
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Pluto and Earth - World Socialist Web Site
The immense capacity for scientific achievement and technological progress is continually perverted by imperialist slaughter, the conflict ... «World Socialist Web Site, Jul 15»
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North Korea wants you to 'like' its Facebook page and watch crappy …
The imperialist Amerikan censors have blocked publishing rights, please keep up good fight for dear leader! The Twitter account gained more ... «We Are The Mighty, Jul 15»
10
Interjections on Bernie Sanders - Counterpunch
What kind of democratic socialist is “good friends” with the corporatist and imperialist Hillary Clinton? And what's so refreshing and salutary ... «CounterPunch, Jul 15»

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