jingoist
noun, adjective
jingoist is a noun meaning “One who advocates an aggressive nationalism; one who vociferously supports a nation's military aims” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled J-I-N-G-O-I-S-T, and it appears about once in every 47 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of jingoist is jingoists.
What does jingoist mean?
noun
- 1
One who advocates an aggressive nationalism; one who vociferously supports a nation's military aims.
adjective
- 1
Jingoistic; extremely supportive of warlike foreign policy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce jingoist?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-jingoist.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of jingoist
- jingoists plural
- more jingoist comparative
- most jingoist superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is jingoist?
Jingoist appears about once in every 47 million words in written English, the 211,986th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Jingoist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense one who advocates an aggressive nationalism, one who vociferously supports a nat:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Hurrapatriot, Chauvinist, Ultranationalist |
| Spanish | jingoísta |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does jingoist come from?
From jingo + -ist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).