From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Groupingsseparatistsep‧a‧ra‧tist /ˈsepərətɪst/ noun [countable]PPGINDEPENDENT COUNTRY OR ORGANIZATIONsomeone who belongs to a group that wants to start a new country with its own government, by separating from the country that they belong to now —separatism noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpusseparatist• Groups of women working or socializingtogether are not automatically separatist.• A Kashmiri separatist group claimedresponsibility for the blast.• The arrestsbrought the number of separatistsdetained in Jayapura since last week to 61.• But under what circumstances does it become politically separatist?• The rules are simple: whatever your race or class, provided you are a woman, you are a potentialseparatist.• The separatists had won no seats at the last elections, in 1986.
