Noun:

स्वदेशानुरागी, देश-प्रेमी, देश-भक्त,

patriot's Usage Examples:

In 1840 the name Sucre was adopted in honour of the patriot commander who won the last decisive battle of the war, and then became the first president of Bolivia.

Hubbell's Life of Horace Mann, Educator, Patriot and Reformer (Philadelphia, 1910), may be mentioned.

When the port of Boston was closed by Great Britain in 1774 the bell of the old First Parish Church (Unitarian) of Portland (built 1740; the present building dates from 1825) was muffled and rung from morning till night, and in other ways the town showed its sympathy for the patriot cause.

active revolutionary patriot, Paulding inherited strong anti-British sentiments.

TAKAMORI SAIGO (1832-1877), Japanese patriot, was born in Satsuma in 1832.

Politically, he was an ardent patriot during the War of Independence, and a strong Federalist afterwards, several of his political discourses attracting wide attention.

A statue to his honour has been erected at Maros-Vasarhely, but he lives still more enduringly in the immortal verses of the patriot poet Sandor Petofi, who fell in the fatal action of the 31st of July at Segesvar.

It had a national history which left its impress upon the popular imagination, and sundry fragments of tradition reveal the pride which the patriot felt in the past.

But Aurelius was an eager patriot and a man of logical mind.

Here's a patriot for you! said Shinshin.

Synonyms:

patrioteer, chauvinist, national, subject, nationalist, hundred-percenter, jingo, flag-waver, jingoist,

Antonyms:

unaffected, insubordinate, unsusceptible, noncitizen, international,