patriot
noun/ˈpætriət/, /ˈpeɪtriət/
/ˈpeɪtriət/
- a person who loves their country and who is ready to defend it against an enemy
- I wouldn’t say I’m a great patriot, but I would never betray my country.
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the late Latin sense): from French patriote, from late Latin patriota ‘fellow countryman’, from Greek patriōtēs, from patrios ‘of one's fathers’, from patris ‘fatherland’.
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