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English

Etymology

From Middle French patriote, from Late Latin patri?ta (“fellow countryman”) from the Ancient Greek ????????? (patri?t?s, “of the same country”), from ?????? (patrís, “father land", "country”), from ????? (pat?r, “father”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pæ.t?i.?t/, /?pe?.t?i.?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?pe?.t(?)?i.?t/

Noun

patriot (plural patriots)

1. A person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country.
   • 2013, Simon Jenkins, Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history (in The Guardian, 14 August 2013)[2]

     Nothing beats a gunboat. HMS Illustrious glided out of Portsmouth on Monday, past HMS Victory and cheering crowds of patriots. Within a week it will be off Gibraltar, a mere cannon shot from Cape Trafalgar.

2. (archaic) A fellow countryman, a compatriot.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of J. S. Mill to this entry?), On Liberty

Derived terms

Translations

References

• patriot in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Czech

Noun

patriot m

1. patriot

   Synonym: vlastenec

Related terms

• See páter

Further reading

• patriot in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• patriot in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French patriote, from Latin patri?ta, from Ancient Greek ????????? (patri?t?s).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?.tri??t/
• Hyphenation: pa?tri?ot
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

patriot m (plural patriotten, diminutive patriotje n)

1. patriot
2. (historical, chiefly Netherlands) A republican opponent of the House of Orange-Nassau during the second half of the eighteenth century, in favour of centralisation and administrative rationalisation.
3. (obsolete) compatriot

   Synonyms: landgenoot, medeburger

Derived terms

• patrizot

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: patriot

Adjective

patriot (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) patriotic

Inflection

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch patriot, from Middle French patriote, from Latin patri?ta, from Ancient Greek ????????? (patri?t?s).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pat??ri?t?]
• Hyphenation: pat?ri?ot

Noun

patriot (first-person possessive patriotku, second-person possessive patriotmu, third-person possessive patriotnya)

1. patriot: a person who loves and zealously supports and defends their country.

Related terms

Further reading

• “patriot” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (patri?t?s)

Noun

patriot m (definite singular patrioten, indefinite plural patrioter, definite plural patriotene)

1. a patriot

Derived terms

• patriotisk
• patriotisme

References

• “patriot” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (patri?t?s)

Noun

patriot m (definite singular patrioten, indefinite plural patriotar, definite plural patriotane)

1. a patriot

Derived terms

• patriotisk
• patriotisme

References

• “patriot” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Patriot, from French patriote, from Latin patriota, from Ancient Greek ????????? (patri?t?s).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /patr?ot/
• Hyphenation: pat?ri?ot

Noun

patrìot, patri?t m (Cyrillic spelling ???????, ????????)

1. patriot

Declension

Synonyms

• r?dolj?b
• d?molj?b

References

• “patriot” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

English

Alternative forms

• Ø (linguistics, abbreviation)
• ? (mathematics, abbreviation)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French nul, from Latin n?llus.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /n?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

null (plural nulls)

1. A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
2. Zero quantity of expressions; nothing.
3. Something that has no force or meaning.
4. (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (?), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
5. (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.

   Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null.

6. One of the beads in nulled work.
7. (statistics) Null hypothesis.

Translations

Adjective

null (comparative more null, superlative most null)

1. Having no validity; "null and void"
2. Insignificant.
   • 1924, Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove:

     In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.

3. Absent or non-existent.
4. (mathematics) Of the null set.
5. (mathematics) Of or comprising a value of precisely zero.
6. (genetics, of a mutation) Causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.

Antonyms

• antinull
• non-null

Derived terms

• null determiner
• nullary
• nullity

Verb

null (third-person singular simple present nulls, present participle nulling, simple past and past participle nulled)

1. (transitive, archaic) To nullify; to annul.
2. To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe.
3. (computing, slang, transitive) To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software).

Related terms

• annul
• nulled work

See also

• nil

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Latin n?llus (“none”).

Numeral

null

1. (Luserna) zero

References

• “null” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Estonian

Numeral

null

1. zero

Faroese

Etymology

From Latin nullus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?

Numeral

null

1. zero

Noun

null n (genitive singular nuls, plural null)

1. (mathematics) the numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero

Declension

German

Etymology

From the noun Null (“the number zero”), from Italian nulla, from Latin nulla, feminine singular of nullus (“no, none”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?l/

Numeral

null

1. zero; nil; nought; (tennis) love (integer number between -1 and 1, denoting no quantity at all)

2. (colloquial) zero; no

   Synonym: (überhaupt) kein

Coordinate terms

Adjective

null (not comparable)

1. (specialist, law, chiefly predicative) null (having no validity)

Declension

Derived terms

• null und nichtig (also in common use)

Further reading

• “null” in Duden online and “null” in Duden online; cp. “null” in Duden online and “null” in Duden online
• “null” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache; cp. “Null” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nul/

Numeral

null

1. zero

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin nullus (“no one, none, no”), from Proto-Italic *ne oinolos, from Proto-Italic *oinos (“one”), from Proto-Indo-European *óynos (“one, single”).

Determiner

null

1. no (determiner: not any)

   ha null penger - to have no money

Numeral

null

1. zero, nought, nil

Noun

null m (definite singular nullen, indefinite plural nuller, definite plural nullene)
null n (definite singular nullet, indefinite plural null or nuller, definite plural nulla or nullene)

1. zero (numeric symbol of zero), nought, nil
2. a nobody or nonentity (derogatory about a person)

Derived terms

• nullstille
• nulltoleranse
• nullvekst

References

• “null” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin nullus

Determiner

null

1. no (determiner: not any)

   ha null pengar - to have no money

Numeral

null

1. zero, nought, nil

Noun

null m (definite singular nullen, indefinite plural nullar, definite plural nullane)
null n (definite singular nullet, indefinite plural null, definite plural nulla)

1. zero (numeric symbol of zero), nought, nil
2. a nobody or nonentity (derogatory about a person)

Derived terms

• nulltoleranse
• nullvekst

References

• “null” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German null.

Numeral

null

1. zero