micronationalist

English

Etymology

From micronational +‎ -ist.

Noun

micronationalist (plural micronationalists)

1. One who believes in micronationalism.
   • 1987, The Ethiopian Revolution and Its Impact on the Politics of the Horn of Africa:

     When micronationalists from Ethiopia label Menelik II's expansion as colonialism and participation in the scramble for Africa, they are simply becoming systematic magicians, or to give them respect, systematic empiricists.

2. One who runs, or othwerise participates in, a micronation.

Adjective

micronationalist (not comparable)

1. (dated) Of, or relating to a micronation; micronational.
   • 1984, Peter J. Hempenstall, Noel Rutherford, Protest and Dissent in the Colonial Pacific:

     But the Mataungan Association significantly enlarged the scale of anti–colonial protest as well, becoming what one writer has called a micronationalist phenomenon.