chauvinism
noun/ˈʃəʊvɪnɪzəm/
/ˈʃəʊvɪnɪzəm/
[uncountable] (disapproving)- an aggressive and unreasonable belief that your own country is better than all others
- It was a typical case of British chauvinism and insularity.
- national/cultural chauvinism
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- male
- cultural
- national
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- (also male chauvinism)the belief held by some men that men are more important, more intelligent or better than womenOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- male
- cultural
- national
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Word Originlate 19th cent.: named after Nicolas Chauvin, a Napoleonic veteran noted for his extreme patriotism, popularized as a character by the Cogniard brothers in Cocarde Tricolore (1831).
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