segregator
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Definition
Noun: 1. A person who advocates for or practices the separation of groups, especially racial groups: A segregator is someone who supports or enforces policies, laws, or social systems that keep different races apart.
Usage Examples
- Noun:
- The historical figure was a known segregator who fought against integrated schools.
- The law was designed by segregators to maintain separate public facilities.
Advanced Usage
- "A vocal segregator": Emphasizes someone who publicly and actively advocates for segregation.
- He was a vocal segregator, often writing editorials defending the practice.
- "An unrepentant segregator": Describes someone who continues to believe in segregation without regret or apology.
- Even decades later, he remained an unrepentant segregator.
Variants and Related Words
- Segregate (verb): To set apart or separate, especially by race.
- The policy sought to segregate the communities.
- Segregation (noun): The act or practice of segregating; the state of being segregated.
- The era of legal segregation ended with the Civil Rights Act.
- Segregationist (noun): A synonym for segregator; a person who believes in or practices segregation, especially racial segregation.
- Segregationists protested the integration of the university.
Synonyms
- Separatist: A person who supports the separation of a particular group from a larger body, often on political, ethnic, or religious grounds.
- Discriminator: A person who makes an unjust distinction in the treatment of different categories of people.
Related Phrases
- To advocate for segregation: To publicly support or recommend segregation.
- The group continued to advocate for segregation well into the 1960s.
- To enforce segregation: To compel observance of segregation laws or rules.
- The governor used state troops to enforce segregation at the schoolhouse door.
Noun
- someone who believes the races should be kept apart