chauvinism

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈʃəʊ.vɪ.nɪ.zəm/    美 /ˈʃoʊ.vɪˌnɪzəm/|/ˈʃəʊ.və.nɪ.zəm/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Excessive patriotism, eagerness for national superiority; jingoism. countable,derogatory,uncountable
    — (C. S.) Lewis occasionally expressed a somewhat tongue-in-cheek chauvinism towards the English. Describing an encounter with a fellow Irishman, he wrote: "Like all Irish people who meet in England, we ended by criticisms on the invincible flippancy and dullness of the Anglo-Saxon race.
  2. Unwarranted bias, favoritism, or devotion to one's own particular group, cause, or idea. countable,derogatory,uncountable
    — Feminists say that male chauvinism is still prevalent in cultures worldwide.

词形变化

chauvinisms plural

词汇关系

近义词
jingoism
衍生词
antichauvinism carbon chauvinism female chauvinism male chauvinism
相关词
chauvinist bigotry Chauvinism in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

词源

Borrowed from French chauvinisme (“idealistic devotion to Napoleon”), named for Nicolas Chauvin, a legendary and excessively patriotic soldier of the French First Republic. The figure of Chauvin became especially famous as a character in the play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers.
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