LOYALIST meaning: Supporter of established government or authority

We found 28 dictionaries that define the word Loyalist:

General (24 matching dictionaries)

loyalist: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
loyalist: Merriam-Webster
Loyalist, loyalist: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
loyalist: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
loyalist: Collins English Dictionary
loyalist: Vocabulary.com
Loyalist, loyalist: Wordnik
Loyalist, loyalist: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Loyalist, loyalist: Wiktionary
loyalist: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
loyalist: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
loyalist: Infoplease Dictionary
Loyalist, loyalist: Dictionary.com
Loyalist (American Civil War), Loyalist (American Revolution), Loyalist (American War of Independence), Loyalist (Northern Ireland), Loyalist (disambiguation), Loyalist: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Loyalist: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
loyalist: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
loyalist: Rhymezone
Loyalist: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
loyalist: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
loyalist: FreeDictionary.org
loyalist: Mnemonic Dictionary
loyalist: TheFreeDictionary.com

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loyalist: Legal dictionary

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loyalist: Encyclopedia

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loyalist: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Loyalist)

▸ noun:  A person who is loyal to a cause, generally used as a political affiliation.
▸ noun:  (US, Canada, historical) A person from the 13 Colonies (of British North America from the eastern seaboard of mainland North America) who was in favor of remaining in the British Empire during the American Revolution.
▸ noun:  (UK, Ireland) A supporter of keeping Northern Ireland under British rule instead of unification with Ireland, usually from a Protestant background.
▸ noun:  A township municipality in Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada.
▸ noun:  (US, Canada, historical) Abbreviation of United Empire Loyalist.

Opposite:

traitor, rebel, defector, dissident

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AmericLoyalist, CanadiLoyalist, Irish Loyalist, more...

Phrases:

Loyalist Volunteer Force, United Empire Loyalist, Loyalist College, Black Loyalist, Loyalist feud, more...

Adjectives:

staunch, american, old, ardent, prominent, british, strong, devoted, zealous, true, active

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royal blue, azure, indigo, sapphire, cerulean, more...

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