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Definition of Expansionist
1. Adjective. Of or involving or guided by expansionism.
Definition of Expansionist
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to expansionism. ¹
2. Noun. An advocate of expansionism. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Expansionist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Expansionist
Literary usage of Expansionist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. World Politics at the End of the Nineteenth Century: As Influenced by the by Paul Samuel Reinsch (1900)
"... from nationalism to national imperialism, and as illustrating the various
ramifications which that expansionist policy at the present time assumes. ..."
2. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1906)
"He became a thorough-going expansionist and wanted to annex territory right and
left. Sumner was more cautious and in his speech on the cession of Russian ..."
3. Pictorial History of America's New Possessions, the Isthmian Canals, and the by Murat Halstead (1899)
"... the Territory We Now Possess in the Thirteen Colonies When Jefferson Wrote
the Declaration of Independence—Andrew Jackson Was an expansionist—So Was Wm. ..."
4. "Imperial Democracy": Dutch Colonizers in Malaysia, Annexation of the by John Joseph Valentine (1899)
"... and I respectfully call the especial attention of the expansionist clergy to
the train robbery statistics of the past nine years in the United States of ..."
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